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.
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.