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Description Writing with AI Image Generators
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Computer and projector, Mobile devices for students
Activity Description
In this activity, students write descriptions of an image using adjectives, apply adjective order rules, learn about AI image prompting, generate images using AI image generation tools, and evaluate and improve their descriptive writing skills.
Source: Say What You See by (License: Protected by Copyright (c) [i.e. screenshot])
In this lesson, students write descriptions using adjectives, apply adjective order rules, generate images using AI image generation tools, and evaluate and improve their descriptive writing skills. The follow-up is a descriptive writing assignment.
Preparation
- Check the websites to ensure they are not blocked at your site.
- Read through the lesson plan.
- Print and make copies of any handouts.
- Practice using Google Arts & Culture's Say What You See image prompting practice before using with students.
- Select the AI image generator that is easiest for your students to access. Some options are Craiyon, Fotor, Imagine, Leonardo AI, Night Cafe, and Stable Diffusion. Practice the steps of AI image generation with the generator you select so that you can demonstrate for students.
- Select images and decide how you will distribute them to students. Google Arts & Culture and The New York Times Learning Network's What's Going On in This Picture are good sources for artwork and interesting photos. If you want students to work collaboratively online, one option is to create a Google Slideshow, provide groups with three slides: one with an image, one with a space for them to write their description, and one where they can copy in the AI-generated image. Another option is Padlet. Use what students will feel most ease using and that they have used before.
These are sample instructions you could add to a shared slideshow for groups to work on collaboratively: Find your group’s slide. Each group has one picture to choose from.
- Work together to write a description of the picture assigned to your team. Include colors, textures, sizes, brightness/darkness, locations. Be as detailed as possible.
- Work together to write a minimum of five sentences with at least one adjective and in each sentence about the picture on the slide assigned to your group.
- Then use an AI image generator. Copy and paste in your team’s description.
- Download or take a snip of the image that is closest to the real picture on your team’s third slide.
- Talk to your team about any differences between the original picture and the image generated by AI. What would you change to your description?
Program Areas
- ABE: Adult Basic Education
- ESL: English as a Second Language
Levels
- Intermediate
- High
- Intermediate High
- Advanced