Eight Essential Principles offers a human-centered framework for navigating AI in education. Through real-world cases, it explores flourishing, relationships, creativity, accessibility, equity, inclusion, openness, and universality—showing how educators can use AI intentionally while keeping human judgment, authorship, trust, and meaningful learning at the center.
AI Cinematic Realism (Second Edition) — The Framework in Brief
The definitive overview of AI Cinematic Realism (Second Edition), from its author: the Ideational Frame, the three strata, the craft grammar, the four pillars of conscious assembly, the forty-point rubric, and intentional seeing — a complete working language for synthetic cinema.
Intentional Seeing: AI Cinematic Realism as a Pedagogy for the Post-Camera Era
AI Cinematic Realism began as a way to evaluate synthetic cinema. But its three strata describe something larger: a pedagogy of intentional seeing that trains the very faculties — attention, coherence, and authorship — that generative AI puts at risk of atrophy.
Pattern Generation Is Not Creativity: What Film Education Teaches Us About Student Authorship in an AI Age
AI can generate the surface appearance of creativity, but not the lived experience that makes creative work meaningful. When students let the machine lead, the artifact may exist — but the authorship disappears. Education must design for decisions, not outputs, ensuring the student remains the originating intelligence behind the work.
Eight Essential Principles: A Model for Human-Centered Learning in the Age of AI
The Eight Essential Principles offer a human-centered framework for AI adoption in education, helping educators and institutions ensure that AI supports flourishing, relationships, creativity, accessibility, equity, inclusion, openness, and universality rather than reducing learning to efficiency, automation, or convenience.
Eight Essential Principles for Education in the Age of AI
These eight principles guide a shift from reactive AI adoption to intentional authorship. By balancing the Irreducible Human Core with Operational Commitments, the framework centers flourishing, relationships, and equity. It ensures that as tools advance, education remains a profoundly human endeavor rooted in agency and wisdom.
Human-Centered Learning in the Age of AI: Eight Essential Principles
As artificial intelligence becomes embedded in education, the question is no longer whether AI will be present, but how it will shape what we value, design, and prioritize in teaching and learning. This article introduces the Eight Essential Principles for AI in Education, a human-centered framework that clarifies what must remain irreducibly human while translating those commitments into accessible, equitable, and inclusive practice.
Gutierrez & Lethcoe’s AI Essentials in Education (AI-Ed): Responsible AI Literacy Course for a Human-Centered Future
Developed by Gutierrez & Lethcoe for Washington’s community and technical colleges, AI Essentials in Education (AI-Ed) is a statewide Canvas course that helps faculty and staff use AI tools responsibly through five modules on ethics, collaboration, and human-centered innovation.
Beyond Knowledge Repositories: Teaching, Learning, and Creating in the Age of AI
In the age of AI, educators are reimagining what it means to create knowledge. As information becomes instantly accessible, our most valuable contributions come from lived experience — original insights that connect learning to life and help solve real-world problems.
Exploring Human–AI Collaboration with Ethics and Insight
AI is not only technology — it’s part of the human story. At CHAIRES, we explore how human–AI collaboration can reflect our values, reshape creativity, and strengthen communities with ethics and insight.