Teaching Creative Technology in the Age of AI

Presented by Index Chinatown. Can you vibe-code learning? Any educator will tell you that it’s been a weird time to be in the classroom since LLMs came about—but teachers of creative technology have had a particularly disorienting experience. On the one hand, we embrace new tools and our ability to critique and experiment with them. On the other, these same tools are radically altering what it means to learn, to teach or even be in the classroom at all. What does it mean to teach creative tech when the tech we’re engaging with is reshaping creativity in real time? We invite educators, students and practitioners at all stages to collectively consider questions we’ve all likely confronted in one form or another: should we allow generative AI in our curricula, and if so, how might we articulate its ideal use?