Art educators are on the front lines of designing a rising generation’s relationship with creativity and media. While public access to generative AI tools has sparked new discussions and practices in creative communities, industries, and higher academia, secondary education art teachers often lack the digital literacy and resources to align emergent technology trends with classroom goals.
- What constraints shape educators’ ability to use technology in their classrooms?
- What values do art educators have for designing their classrooms and (non) use of technology?
- How have the responsibilities of teachers evolved alongside new technologies?
Teachers need access to adequate, working resources.
Teachers need guidance on how to use and implement new tools!
Teachers are experts who need the agency to teach technology how they see fit!
rather than introducing tools that impose technology centered-norms onto the classroom, researchers might apply a lens that sees art teachers as expert designers of communities of practice—to learn from them how we might develop technology and policy to support a brighter and more sustainable future for creative communities.
read our paper or come see the talk at DIS 2026, at the Learning with (and About) Technology session on Monday, June 15, 2–3:30 PM, in LT 50.