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Artificial Intelligence and Embodied Play: Using drama processes and tools to explore the affordances and limitations of AI
Friday March 21, 2025 4:00pm - 5:15pm EDT
LB 226
Session Evaluation
Theatre Education faculty and pre-service drama teachers will lead a gathering of educators and artists to collectively use drama processes and tools to play with Artificial Intelligence designed for the drama classroom. In our explorations we plan to use drama activities to identify the possibilities of developing drama curriculum co-created with our own minds and bodies and the popular but controversial technology. We are particularly interested in the ways that our collective embodied practice might inform our understanding of this new technology. We have planned a process driven investigation in which we will think about the ways that our bodies encounter the technology. Specifically, we will explore and use Artificial Intelligence tools through embodied engagement and active communication with AI together in real time. We believe that this will help us better understand the capabilities of this technology as we produce and refine drama curriculum. We also want participants to consider the ways that a GenAI-produced collaborative curriculum might function within the live space and place of drama classrooms. These constraints will inform our collaboration with the materials created using Artificial Intelligence. We hope that GenAI might amplify our curricular processes and products, but we also want to also maintain a critical awareness of the potentially serious ethical challenges present when using these technologies. To maintain creativity and critical alertness we have built in time for guided reflection that addresses the affordances and limitations of what we are making with ChatGPT. We believe that these reflective opportunities will help us to seriously consider the ways we might interrogate our curricular processes and products to better meet teachers' lived experiences in classrooms. Through our work together we hope to amplify creativity and collaboration as a means of reducing our community's concerns about the encroachment of Artificial Intelligence into drama spaces.
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Amy Petersen Jensen

Amy Petersen Jensen is a Theatre and Media Arts Professor. She currently serves as Associate Dean of Faculty Development and Research in the College of Fine Arts and Communications. Prior to serving as Associate Dean, Amy was the Department Chair in the Theatre and Media Arts Department... Read More →
Friday March 21, 2025 4:00pm - 5:15pm EDT
LB 226
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