PERSPECTIVE article
Front. Educ.
Sec. Digital Education
Volume 10 - 2025 | doi: 10.3389/feduc.2025.1621207
This article is part of the Research TopicTeaching and Assessing with AI: Teaching Ideas, Research, and ReflectionsView all 19 articles
GIFT-AI: Damn!.jpg – Visual Literacy Through Image-Making with Generative AI
Provisionally accepted
- University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden
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This article addresses the growing need for AI literacy by introducing a classroom activity that combines critical theory with hands-on engagement using generative AI image tools. Students were guided through theoretical framing, image selection, AI experimentation, and group analysis. The activity emphasized how prompt design shapes visual outputs and explored the implications of generative systems through selected theoretical frameworks. Results from classroom implementation indicate improved student understanding of the aesthetic and epistemological implications of AI-generated media. The exercise demonstrates how image-making can serve as both a critical and creative method for interrogating algorithmic systems across digital art, media education, visual culture, science and technology studies, and critical AI research. The following course framework outlines how the activity was implemented and contextualized within interdisciplinary learning environments.
Keywords: Generative AI, visual literacy, Art, Photography, Critical Theory
Received: 30 Apr 2025; Accepted: 18 Aug 2025.
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* Correspondence: Klara Källström, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden
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