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Describing Images with Padlet and AI

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Activity Website:
Tech Product/Equipment:
Computer and projector, Mobile devices for students, chrome books or computer carts

Activity Description

Boy eating ice cream with dog
Source: Padlet AI (License: CC0/Public Domain)
 

Students will use descriptive skills to create an AI picture similar to the one the teacher displays.

 

Preparation

  1. Check the website to ensure it is not blocked at your site.
  2. Read through the lesson plan.
  3. Print and make copies of any handouts.

Teacher Tips

Pre-teach descriptive vocabulary before using this lesson.

Steps for teaching how to search an image in AI

  1. Start by describing the image.
  2. Some things to think about, what actions do you see? What is the mood of the image? Do you want a realistic image, a clip art image, or animation?
  3. If the image looks different from your expectations, decide why and regenerate.

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Program Areas

  • ABE: Adult Basic Education
  • ESL: English as a Second Language

Levels

  • Low
  • Intermediate
  • High
  • All Levels
  • All Levels

Lesson Plan

Warm-up
Engagement

Choose an image that is describable at your students' language level. Divide the students into small groups or breakout rooms and ask them to list the items in the picture. Discuss as a whole class.

Warm-up
My dog
Source: Padlet Ai (License: CC0/Public Domain)
 For a picture like this, I might brainstorm blue jeans (denim) ice cream cone, a golden retriever, happy boy about 10 years old. Facing left, facing right, sitting, squatting, etc.

Introduction

Today we will learn how to generate an image using description.

Presentation
Enhancement

Create a padlet board for students to use. You can see the one I used at padlet.com/susangaer/images

To create an image for students to replicate, click on the plus sign, click on the 3 dots or the most far right button. See the image below.

Screenshot of padlet
Select "I can't Draw".  Type the description of the image.
 

Practice

Have students go to your padlet board and try to create a similar image by following the same steps.Encourage students to use the vocabulary used in the warm up.

Evaluation
Enhancement

Students can present their pictures to the class by reading their descriptions.

Application
Extension

Have students practice creating images on the padlet board and use those images for class discussion during other classes.

Documents

Subjects

  • Reasoning Through Language Arts
    • Mechanics (Capitalization, Punctuation, Spelling)
  • Writing
    • Basic Sentences
    • Mechanics (Capitalization, Punctuation, Spelling)
    • Paragraph Skills
    • Parts of Speech
    • Report Writing

Standards

  • Writing
    • CCR Anchor 4 - Produce clear and coherent writing in which the development, organization, and style are appropriate to task, purpose, and audience.
    • CCR Anchor 5 - Develop and strengthen writing as needed by planning, revising, editing, rewriting, or trying a new approach.
    • CCR Anchor 6 - Use technology, including the Internet, to produce and publish writing and to interact and collaborate with others.
  • Speaking and Listening
    • CCR Anchor 5 - Make strategic use of digital media and visual displays of data to express information and enhance understanding of presentations.
  • Language
    • CCR Anchor 1 - Demonstrate command of the conventions of English grammar and usage when writing or speaking.
    • CCR Anchor 3 - Apply knowledge of language to understand how language functions in different contexts, to make effective choices for meaning or style, and to comprehend more fully when reading or listening.

Tags

Speaking, Writing, describing, image, padlet

Tools

padlet, AI image generator

AI Reference

This lesson uses AI from Padlet.
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OTAN activities are funded by contract CN240137 from the Adult Education Office, in the Career & College Transition Division, California Department of Education, with funds provided through Federal P.L., 105-220, Section 223. However, OTAN content does not necessarily reflect the position of that department or the U.S. Department of Education.