SINGAPORE – Primary and secondary school teachers explored generating visuals from news articles to produce photorealistic advertisements, cartoon posters and anime-style comic strips using generative artificial intelligence (Gen AI) at the SPH Media News Centre in Toa Payoh North.
About 100 teachers from 45 schools attended The Straits Times’ AI prompt engineering workshops held on Nov 11 for secondary school teachers and Nov 13 for primary school teachers.
The workshops guided them on how to better use Gen AI like ChatGPT and Gemini to create classroom content, seamlessly integrating current affairs into their lessons.
During the 2½-hour workshop, trainers from StoryLab Academy, a start-up that conducts language enrichment workshops using digital tools, showed attendees techniques to sharpen the prompts they wrote to generate classroom content, as well as to refine the output.
The teachers then got hands-on, generating visual content for the classroom based on articles previously featured in Little Red Dot and IN – weekly student publications produced by ST’s Schools department for primary and secondary schools respectively.
