Campfire Session — Arts and Design Fall '25

Explore how arts educators use Flint to build creative activities, support multilingual learners, critique student work, and use analytics to guide instruction.

Lulu Gao, Head of Teacher Experience at Flint | LinkedIn

In this Campfire Session on Arts & Design, we explored how educators use Flint’s chats, activities, and analytics to support creative learning, deepen reflection, and make student thinking visible. The session featured recent product updates, a live activity build with Sparky, and real classroom examples from art and design teachers.

Content covered in this session includes:

• A discussion on AI in art education, sparked by SCAD’s new Applied AI major and questions around skill-building versus automation.
• An overview of recent Flint updates, including response length controls, Drive integrations, Needs Attention alerts, School Library sharing, and improved image editing.
• How teachers use Flint chats to draft lessons, generate exemplars, simplify outputs by grade level, and convert chats into full activities.
• A walkthrough of building and refining an Arts & Design activity with Sparky, using simulation and iteration to improve clarity and student engagement.
• Ways Flint supports accessibility and multilingual learners, including responding in students’ home languages and duplicating activities by language.
• How teachers use Flint analytics to identify individual and class-wide strengths, gaps, and suggested next steps.

Slides from the presentation can be found here.

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Introduction • 00:00

• Lulu introduces the session and agenda.

Ice-breaking news • 2:36

• Teacher and design educators discuss potential use cases for Flint with artifacts like a video and document, aiming to inspire and inform on how to apply Flint in art and design contexts.
• Introduction to ice-breaking news about a new AI major at Savannah College of Art and Design and the discussion of its implications for education and AI integration in creative fields.
• Discussion on how AI is shaping education, emphasizing end goals and the need to preserve cognitive engagement rather to offload tasks.

Chats for arts and design • 10:24

• Lulu Gao outlines updates since the last arts and design session, including system and feature enhancements.
• Improvements to Sparky include adjustable response length and new settings for concise, balanced, and thorough outputs.
• New integrations allow attaching and exporting via Google Drive and OneDrive, plus ability to recreate documents in Google Drive for editing and sharing.
• Alerts have been introduced to flag student engagement, difficulty with topics, or improper behavior toward Sparky.
• A school library feature enables publishing activities to either a school library or a public library, broadening sharing options.
• Image editing now supports precise changes rather than regenerating entire images, preserving details from prior versions.
• An example chat demonstrates creating a lesson plan with Flint.

Activities for arts and design • 17:23

• The demonstration shows how to create a custom activity in Flint, starting from a blank slate and pasting a prompt that targets fourth grade art elements with an accompanying website as a resource.
• The session covers multiple configurable prompts for Sparky, including allowing students to speak and listen, limiting reading load, enabling different modalities (speaking, writing, listening, reading), and encouraging students to upload sketches or show their work on a whiteboard.
• Sparky understands and can respond in 500 dialects, with default multilingual comprehension for student input.
• Lulu outlines the analytics and navigation for class activity.

Educator shareout • 32:59

• Derek Wiggins describes a schoolwide training project focused on AI and metacognition in design and technology, including using a document checker to analyze student work.
• Demo uses real student projects (volleyball players, chocolate box) to test AI tools and show how Sparky identifies details like gender and nationality.
• Libby Sievert introduces herself as a visual arts teacher in New Delhi, explaining using Flint for in-process and final critiques, rubric creation, and research support.

Conclusion • 53:38

• Lulu shares info about the upcoming campfire session, Flint Wrapped 2025.