RESOURCES

Some of our favorite resources will be frequently updated below. Contact us to add your own or contribute a piece. Visit the Selected Resources page for more.

A long-standing resource that pre-dates our current AI landscape is the < Interactive Media Archive>, founded by Dr. Marina Hassapopoulou. The site has been around for some 15 years, and features innovative experimental student projects, teaching tips, resources, and assignment guidelines. The innovative aspects of the showcased student work are not primarily technical — ideas take the center stage, and the rest follows; the “ideas before tools” mantra should be extended to AI from a tool-agnostic perspective. Public-facing scholarship and practice are important means of making student work visible and celebrated. Accessible means of production is also an important factor for cultivating inclusive learning environments. Many of the showcased projects on the Interactive Media Archive have been made using DIY, low- and no-tech/budget methods and, as a result, push the boundaries of what can be considered creative technology and what constitutes digital humanities. Visit the archive’s Resources page for more articles and lesson plans using digital technologies and hands-on approaches.

Besides the AI-focused projects for the Visualizations assignment that will be spotlighted separately, there are also some AI-focused Media Archaeology projects on the Interactive Media Archive that cover early artistic experiments with pre-historic forms of AI including our featured artist Toni Dove’s Sally or the Bubble Burst (2003) and Luc Courchesne’s Portrait One (Portrait No1, 1990 – still accessible online here alongside one of the first essays on “bot” art).

List of clickable AI pedagogy resources, projects, & tools (more soon):

• The AI Pedagogy Project – metaLAB at Harvard
• Harvard’s Teaching with Generative AI guide
• Teach AI
• AI Lab: Navigating Artificial Intelligence
• Creative A.I. Lab
• Edinburg Futures Institute database & Experiential AI project
• New York University’s “AI Now” Institute
• Columbia Storytelling Lab 
• Playlab – easy software creation for educators (e.g., chatbots and other tools)
• Futuress.org: a vibrant online/hybrid community where feminism, design, and politics meet — check out their #curricula for lesson plans and pedagogical activities
• Educause’s AI Ethical Guidelines
• AI x Design
• We and AI – Critical literacy non-profit organization that also launched Better Images of AI, Race and AI Toolkit, and other useful resources.
• Center for Responsible AI: Teaching & Education
• ESRC Digital Good Network: Research, collaboration, and opportunities hub
• Environmentally-conscious use of AI and assessing AI’s carbon footprint: What Uses More (John Ippolito) & Susan Ray’s Carbon Footprint Chatbot (pair well with this video). For reference, this is NYU’s AI & Sustainability guide & the Resources page.

Activities & Classroom Resources:

• Interactive icebreaker: Wired magazine’s “AI of a Thousand Faces” special issue
• Creative prompt builder template (thanks to this Creative Mornings workshop)
• Brainstorming template (see more from Echoes of Panda on Notion)
• Create custom chatbots using Playlab tutorial by Jason Gulya
• Creating AI characters tutorial by Mike Kenz
• Environmentally-conscious use of AI and assessing AI’s carbon footprint: What Uses More (John Ippolito) & Susan Ray’s Carbon Footprint Chatbot (pair well with this video). For reference, this is NYU’s AI & Sustainability guide & the Resources page. >> From John Ippolito via LinkedIn: ” In a feature entitled How AI Is Sparking Unexpected Conversations in Classrooms, the Mark Cuban Foundation notes that ‘One conversation among students that our teachers are reporting back to us about is how AI is impacting our environment…it’s certainly a dialogue we need to engage in and continue to revisit.’ Built from publicly available data, What Uses More lets you adjust key variables, from how complex your prompt is to the kind of energy powering the nearest data center and even the local climate it operates in. Susan Ray’s Carbon Footprint works similarly, except that the interface is a chatbot rather than a calculator. My favorite classroom application is an equivalence challenge: how many three-second AI-generated videos would you need to equal the energy demand of a single hour-long Zoom call? The goal isn’t to memorize numbers, but to notice how dramatically the answer shifts with each change in circumstance, and thereby to learn the factors that go into AI’s energy and water costs.”

Learning Assessment & AI Regulation in the Classroom (in progress):

• Use the drop-down menu for case studies and sample assignments from Marina’s courses
• For more suggestions and thoughtful insights, check out the books, articles, and influential educators list below.
• “What Are We Really Assessing: Rethinking Evidence of Learning in the Age of AI,” by Joanne Villis
• “Six Territories for Disciplinary AI Literacy,” by Nick Potkalitsky

📚 Articles, Books, & Reports (in-progress):

• The Opposite of Cheating: Teaching for Integrity in the Age of AI by Tricia Bertram Gallant and David A. Rettinger (University of Oklahoma Press, 2025).
• The AI Classroom: The Ultimate Guide to Artificial Intelligence in Education by Daniel Fitzpatrick, Amanda Fox, and Bradley Metrock (2023).
• Teaching with AI: A Practical Guide to a New Era of Human Learning by José Antonio Bowen and C. Edward Watson (Wiley, 2025).
• Co-Intelligence: Living and Working with AI by Ethan Mollick (Penguin Press, 2024).
  (Widely used in universities for AI pedagogy + creative learning design.)
• The Creative Edge: How AI Will Transform Education and Creativity by Henry Li (Routledge, 2025).
• The Future of Learning: Education in the Age of AI edited by James Hadfield & Andrew Kuiper (Routledge, 2024).
• AI for Education: Teaching, Learning, and Research in the Age of Artificial Intelligence edited by Wayne Holmes and Kaska Porayska-Pomsta (Springer, 2024).
• 21st Century Literacies with AI: Critical Perspectives for Teachers edited by Tiffani Hutchinson & Katie Schaefer (Routledge, 2025).
• Artificial Intelligence in Education: Promises and Implications by Education Design Lab (2019, foundational early report referenced widely in policy).
• AI Literacy: Developing Critical Thinking About AI by Megan Del Vecchio (MIT Press, 2025).
• Teaching in the Post-AI Classroom: Rewriting Pedagogy for a Hybrid Future by Paul Handley (Routledge, 2024).
• The Creative Imperative: AI, Imagination, and the Future of Learning by Lanny Arvan (Springer, 2025).
• AI and Academic Integrity: Designing Ethical Classrooms by John Palfrey and Margaret Hagood (Rowman & Littlefield, 2024).
• Human-AI Co-Creativity: Exploring Synergies Across Levels of Creative Collaboration by Haase et al. (arXiv, 2024).
• How AI Ideas Affect the Creativity, Diversity, and Evolution of Human Ideas by Ashkinaze et al. (arXiv, 2024).
• Artificial Intelligence in Creative Industries: Advances Prior to 2025 by Anantrasirichai et al. (arXiv, 2025).
• Surfing Human Creativity with AI — A User’s Guide by Naoto KUI (Qosmo, 2023).
• The Artist in the Machine: The World of AI-Powered Creativity by Arthur I. Miller (MIT Press, 2020).
• Extended Creativity: A Conceptual Framework for Understanding Human–AI Creative Relations by Gaggioli et al. (arXiv, 2025).
• Eight Essential Books About AI and Art (ArtNews curated list, 2024).
• Ways of Being by James Bridle (2022).

Recommended Newsletters/Substacks & Social Media/LinkedIN EduInfluencers:

• AI for Education: Pedagogically oriented AI resources for educators.
• Tech Policy weekly newsletter
• AIxDesign‘s newsletter
• Jason Gulya’s The AI Edventure: An important exploration of cutting-edge innovations in AI-responsive curriculum and pedagogy.
• Kate O’Neill‘s “tech humanist” newsletter.
• Jon Ippolito, Professor of New Media and Director of Digital Curation at the University of Maine; explores archives, media & AI.
• Douglas Rushkoff, Technology/culture critic exploring human agency in AI age.
• Geert Lovink, Dutch media theorist and internet-culture critic; founding Director of the Institute of Network Cultures, exploring how digital media, archives and AI influence creative and educational practice.
• Susan Ray, a prolific advocate for the ethical integration of AI into education.
• Eryk Salvaggio‘ s Cybernetic Forests newsletter for anything related to creative and experimental AI, with valuable policy-related and ethical insights.
• The Pragmatic AI Educator newsletter by Nick Potkalitsky — Bookmarked article: “Why ‘Think Critically About AI’ isn’t enough.”
• Joanne Villis, Director of Technology Enrichment.
• Mike Kentz’s AI EduPathways: Insights from one of our most insightful, creative, and eloquent AI educators in the business.
• Terry Underwood’s Learning to Read, Reading to Learn: The most penetrating investigation of the intersections between compositional theory, literacy studies, and AI on the internet!!!
• Suzi’s When Life Gives You AI: A cutting-edge exploration of the intersection among computer science, neuroscience, and philosophy
• Alejandro Piad Morffis’s The Computerist Journal: Unmatched investigations into coding, machine learning, computational theory, and practical AI applications
• Michael Woudenberg’s Polymathic Being: Polymathic wisdom brought to you every Sunday morning with your first cup of coffee
• Rob Nelson’s AI Log: Incredibly deep and insightful essay about AI’s impact on higher ed, society, and culture.
• Michael Spencer’s AI Supremacy: One of the most comprehensive and current analysis of AI news and trends, featuring numerous intriguing guest posts
• Daniel Bashir’s The Gradient Podcast: The top interviews with leading AI experts, researchers, developers, and linguists.
• Daniel Nest’s Why Try AI?: The most amazing updates on AI tools and techniques
• Andrew Ng, Leading AI educator; accessible training & applied AI insights.
• Demis Hassabis, DeepMind CEO; key voice in AI research & ethics.
• Sinead Bovell, Futurist focused on AI literacy & inclusive tech education.
• Nathan Lambert, AI safety researcher; strong educator on ML fundamentals.
• Zain Khan’s Superhuman Newsletter: Daily breakdowns of AI tools, productivity & workflows.
• Ruben Hassid: Practical tutorials on Midjourney, ChatGPT and creative AI.
• Jeff Bullas: Thought leader on digital media + AI-driven content strategy.
• Kitty Wheeler: AI marketing/education insights; curates top influencer lists.
• Dave Birss — Co-Founder at The Gen AI Academy; focused on creative + applied AI education.
• Sarthak Ahuja — Featured in “Top 20 AI Educators on Social Media (2025)”; shares tools, workflows & learning.
• Raghav Gupta — INSEAD-trained executive heading education initiatives for OpenAI in India/Asia-Pacific, linking AI & learning systems.
• Kevin Barenblat — Co-Founder of Fast Forward; writes the “AI for Humanity” newsletter bridging AI, education & social impact.
• Send us your recommendations, this is not a comprehensive list!

*Credit to Nick Potkalitsky for part of this list.

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