🗻 Story MountAIn

📚 Knowledge builders

• False Consensus Effect → This bias describes the tendency for people to overestimate the extent to which others share their own beliefs, values, opinions, interests, and behaviours. Essentially, individuals project their own attitudes and interests onto others, assuming they are more common or widespread than they might be in reality. This is just as true when it comes to the use of AI. A new report has 35% of U.S. adults thinking that AI will have a negative impact in the next 20 years compared to just 15% AI experts.

• Perceptions of AI in K-12 Education → The same report notes that only 24% of the U.S. public believe that over the next 20 years AI will be very or somewhat positive for K-12 education, compared with 61% of AI experts.

  The whole report makes for some fascinating insights into the perceptions of AI.

🤖 Industry updates

• Canva AI For All → One for our American colleagues…All of the tools available in Canva for Districts are now approved for students of any age, including under 13. It is fully compliant with GDPR, so we may see this rolled out across Europe at some point in the future too. As with all things AI, I would caution its use with young students for reasons I have written here.

•  AI Preparedness Update → Open AI have released a new update to their safety framework on the risks that AI may present to the human race along with the prevention of the rise of the Terminator.

✨ Fresh prompts

1. Story Mountain → A far from perfect end result, put I quite liked the idea of trying to put an ‘image in an image’. In this case, it comes through 5 separate images that form the classic ‘story mountain’ plot structure. There was a fair bit of refinement needed for this one, so if you find something better, do let me know.

Generate a single, wide, black and white cartoon image in a simple, slightly rough, hand-drawn style that tells a story of a cat rescue using a visual "story mountain" structure. Make the images clearly more 'image within an image. Have them mapped out on a mountain that mimics the plot structure mentioned. On the far left (representing the exposition), show a small, cartoonish cat with large, worried eyes perched high on a branch of a tall, leafy tree, with two equally cartoonish children (one taller with stripes, one shorter with a round head) looking up with concern. Progressing slightly to the right (rising action), depict the children working together to lean a small wooden ladder against the tree trunk. Further to the right, nearing the peak (climax), show the taller child reaching out from the ladder towards the hesitant cat, while the shorter child holds the ladder's base. Moving down the slope to the right (falling action), illustrate the taller child carefully descending the ladder with the cat in their arms, the shorter child looking relieved below. Finally, on the far right (resolution), show both children kneeling on the ground, happily petting the now calm cat, with the tree and ladder subtly in the background. Use visual cues like position and size to suggest the progression of the story.