Welcome to Day 2! Today, we will explore using images (AI or not) in a learning environment. While images are great for catching students' attention, they may be detrimental to learning if used improperly.

Microcourse reading: Supporting Learning with AI-generated Images: A Research-Backed Guide

https://mitsloanedtech.mit.edu/2024/03/06/supporting-learning-with-ai-generated-images-a-research-backed-guide/

To give us a framework to think about this, we would like you to have a look at the following article:

It is a clipping of an MIT webpage with the header "Supporting Learning with AI-Generated Images: A Research-Backed Guide"

https://mitsloanedtech.mit.edu/2024/03/06/supporting-learning-with-ai-generated-images-a-research-backed-guide/

We want to draw your attention to a study from the article by Sung and Mayer (2012) explored the idea that any graphic in a learning experience can fall into one of three categories: