How I Create Genuine Moments With Artificial Children
AI helps us produce authentic training videos while protecting identities
by Erica Key, Chief Learning Officer
As a practitioner of early childhood education, it's important to me that my team and I show the teachers we are training that we understand the daily realities of the classroom when we do professional development.
By far the most popular way to train others is to provide video footage of real work with real children. This is exactly what we did last fall in our collaboration with Sesame Workshop.
While everything we produced has signed parental consent, we still are slow to share or reuse any image of a child, and have not yet shared footage of a child’s big upsets; it feels like too vulnerable of a moment for that small human, even though it’s often illustrative of the solutions our colleagues ask for most.
At Learning Seeds, our core guiding value is: Do what's best for children. So to that end, as we look to reuse video footage, we've been experimenting with AI image tools to cosmetically alter the faces of the children while retaining all the authenticity of the video footage, which captures us improvisationally coaching children through real challenges around sharing, enduring, and cooperating during play.
Wanna play I Spy? Take a look at the first five-ish minutes of the original webinar video and see if you can find the cosmetic changes I made to create the image above.
When used the right way, AI-generated images can help our team use data from authentic real world teaching interactions to scale the knowledge from the teachable moment while maximizing the privacy of the children who are experiencing those moments with us.
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