AI ART and Meaning What role does an artist play when employing AI? Artist statement by JJFBbennett If we accept that AI can generate vast quantities of statistically “meaningful” content from data and algorithms, then meaningful art may lie not in the output itself, but in its selection and framing. AI functions as a kind of unconscious, producing raw material at scale. The artist’s role shifts from maker to curator: deciding what to extract from the data’s noise, what to present as art, the context in which it appears, and the conversation it enters. The artist as the muddler and meddler in the centre of it all. This shift has an art-historical precedent. In 1917, Marcel Duchamp’s *Fountain* made a decisive claim: the artist had not sculpted the urinal but selected it, titled it, and placed it in a gallery. Meaning arose from the gesture of choice rather than the act of making. Walter Benjamin, too, anticipated this logic in his reflections on montage and editing: meaning can e...
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21st Century: The Learning Challenge
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These notes are abbreviated; ebook text highlights and notes by JJFBbennett. I do promote the reading of this book to gain a deeper understanding of 21st C teaching and learning.
Whilst the following notes are inspired by the book they are not directly associated with the book.
The challenge
To equip students with 21st Century skills.
The connection
The link between skills and knowledge are interdependent
Effective teaching requires students to learn skills
Life long learning ability requires adaptive learning skills
Students need literacy and numeracy skills to have the fundamental capacities for lifelong learning
Plan for the future
Foreseeing what future skills students will need - is essential.
Teachers need to plan for adaptive learning skills.
Teachers cannot focus only on present-day skills.
The relationship between the educator and learner needs is key to students gaining 21st Century skills
Participatory learning
Learning needs to be outcome-based.
Students need to actively participate and self direct their learning needs.
Students need the skills to collaborate to achieve team-based outcomes.
Students need to have a post-school vision that is skills-based
to manage work pathways
to enable career flexibility
identify suitable TAFE options
to enter university
to contribute as citizenship in a digital global world.
Gardner's 5 Minds of the Future.
Discipline mind
Synthesizing mind
Creative mind
Respectful mind
Ethical mind
Skills
Students need to have the following skills to participate in the knowledge industry.
communication skills,
problem-solving skills, and
critical thinking skills
Society needs
Society needs a highly skilled and adaptive workforce
Only people who are highly skilled and can manage knowledge will keep up with the needs of a fast-changing and technology scientific society.
If you don't know the internet you can't be my teacher, I need someone who knows what I know.
To be highly skilled and a manager of knowledge students need digital literacy skills. It is the platform for developing life long learning skills.
Schools are not engaging a sufficient number of students to become adaptive life long learners.
How should schools plan and enable programs of instruction to develop students to gain skills in
innovation,
creativity
analysis
problem-solving
knowledge management
Schools play a critical role in a countries ability to maintain living standards.
“I do believe that it is necessary to stress that for most countries today, human
resource development and human capital formation are either extremely
important, absolutely vital, or a matter of life and death. In the case of
Malaysia…we think it is a matter of life or death.”
Abdullah Bin Ahmed Badawi, Prime Minister of Malaysia (Opening Speech of
the 2006 Meeting of the Association of Commonwealth Universities)
"Higher quality school leavers will support higher quality university graduates, which will mean increased skills, greater innovation and most importantly, a boost to national productivity."
It’s becoming clear to me that the crisis in youth unemployment around the world is not just one of the aftershocks of the global economic downturn, but may also have roots in education systems that are not adequately preparing students for 21st-century economies.
capable of responding to change in a positive manner; to
take on leadership roles
and have effective working interactions.
Teachers needs are not in unison
21C skills are seen as add-ons to what presently is provided in today's schools.
They are add-ons to what described as a crowded curriculum.
Teachers are not moving past the curriculum to engage the students with 21C skills.
Teachers are effectively stating I don't know how to do it so I will deny my students the opportunity to do it.
Teachers need to be digital literate
Professional development
Teachers need to be supported by sustained professional development if more students are to engage in 21C knowledge and skills.
Teachers need to develop skills to manage the crowded curriculum
Teachers need to be trained in hands-on inquiry-based learning methods that employ higher learning skills associated with the Blooms revised digital taxonomy.
Students Need
Students need to interact with knowledge in a different way.
It is important that knowledge can be recalled but it is now important that students know how to rapidly access the required knowledge.
Students need to re-purpose and use knowledge in a creative and innovative way.
Classrooms
Form follows function. If the function of learning is to generate engagement, collaboration, and problem-solving - the form a classroom takes is what?
So how do you identify the same as classroom and one that attempts to meet the needs of the 21st century?
The Highway and the Lost Soldier The midday sun around Adelaide River does something violent to the bitumen. At forty-five degrees, the Stuart Highway softens like melting fat; it turns into a black mirror, rippling with an unnatural, liquid glare that pools over every low rise. That is where it waits. He is always trudging south, away from life and deeper into the blistering furnace, his boots making no sound against the tar. The Highway and Lost Soldier Standing From two hundred yards out, he resembles a stranded traveler you’d pull over to save. He wears sun-bleached, disintegrating drill cotton that matches the bone-white dust of the termite country, his head angled down at an impossible, broken angle against the glare. No broad-brim hat. No swag. No water bottle. Just stiff, unnatural limbs jerking with every stride. “Driver... look at his face. We need to stop—why won't he turn around?” He is no lost tourist. Could he be the linesman from the Overland Telegraph days who tore ...
The Terminal Horizon Tourist Bus Discovering the Terminal Horizon The Long Highway Out here, the world ends not in silence, but in fire. The asphalt bleeds into cracked red earth, stretching toward a bruised horizon where the sky refuses to cool. Behind the glass, you drive chasing ghosts through a desert that forgot rain a lifetime ago. Beneath the Scorch Every road leads deeper into the furnace. Even below the surface, the rock fissures and weeps, hot steam rising through subterranean fractures where molten veins pulse in the dark, feeding an ancient, unforgiving heat. Broken Arteries What we built couldn’t hold. Rails twist into the dunes, swallowed by iron sand and wind. Bridges split down the seam, concrete splintered into raw bone, tangled rebar, and dying wires crackling into the smoke. The machines stopped; the wasteland stayed. The Last Horizon And when the road finally runs out, there is only the ash, the petrified stumps, and the quiet. You are a lone figure sitting in...
The Terminal Horizon Highway The Terminal Horizon Tourist Bus Would you catch the Terminal Horizon bus? Travel sketches by metamodernist artist JJFBbennett The Long Highway Out here, the world ends not in silence, but in fire. The asphalt bleeds into cracked red earth, stretching toward a bruised horizon where the sky refuses to cool. Behind the glass, you drive chasing ghosts through a desert that forgot rain a lifetime ago. Beneath the Scorch Every road leads deeper into the furnace. Even below the surface, the rock fissures and weeps, hot steam rising through subterranean fractures where molten veins pulse in the dark, feeding an ancient, unforgiving heat. Broken Arteries What we built couldn’t hold. Rails twist into the dunes, swallowed by iron sand and wind. Bridges split down the seam, concrete splintered into raw bone, tangled rebar, and dying wires crackling into the smoke. The machines stopped; the wasteland stayed. The Last Horizon And when the road finally runs out, the...
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