Pages which explore how AI can be used
Crystal Balls There is a tension between the government’s aspirations for the country to take a leading role in the evolution of AI and the traditional inertia of education in the face of change and new ideas. Currently the defensive desire to protect students ‘from’ AI takes precedence over the inevitable need to […]
Adobe and OpenAI have just taken a big step in making professional creative tools more accessible to a wider audience. In late 2025, Adobe announced that Adobe Photoshop — along with Adobe Express and Acrobat — is now integrated directly into ChatGPT, meaning users can edit images, create graphics, and perform design tasks simply by
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Note: We have reworked the pages about ‘Drawing Like an Artist‘. This was developed to was to see if AI + artists’ quotes could help teachers generate an ongoing programme of short drawing workshops scattered, or woven, through the normal curriculum. These could develop students’ understanding and use of drawing as parallel and independent creative
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This website explores opportunities AI offers art teachers to make their professional work easier. The core principles that emerged in the course of the research into AI were:
In the past year or so we have been exploring what ‘design’ means in the context of the art and design curriculum. Some of this can be found in the pages here about acting as designers. The link below takes you to a month long programme of short films about design from all over the
Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Secondary Art & Design Education Conference at The University of the Arts London, Tuesday 6 July This was a really interesting and energising conference. It shared the experiences and working practices of experts at the forefront of design, across a variety of fields ‘who used AI as a tool‘. The italics
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Trails.scot is a teacher resource developed by the Data Education in Schools team at the University of Edinburgh in partnership with the Scottish government. It has been created for teachers in Scotland, however is also an excellent resource for teachers in England who are interested in the potential of AI in schools. This project
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Artists and filmmakers hold a mirror up to the times we live in and speculate future realities. They wield the ultimate power to incite change through their creative expression. As AI increasingly contributes to artistic creation and film production, questions regarding the balance between human creativity and machine ingenuity are coming into focus. This research
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Teachers should be aware that the DfE has now published extensive support materials to help schools and colleges use AI safely and effectively. All teachers have an obligation to be vigilante and fully conversant with these materials. These free support materials for staff in schools and colleges, have been developed by the Chiltern Learning
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DfE Misses the Point In 2025 a Global AI Jobs Barometer, by PricewaterhouseCoopers, revealed that, rather than displacing workers, AI raises their value. Analysis of nearly a billion job postings worldwide shows that revenue per employee, in AI exposed industries, is growing three times faster than in others. Wages in these sectors rise at double
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