---
title: Remixing, Creativity, and Originality
units: [Problem Solving With AI]
summary: You or AI can drive the boat.
weight: 100
---

{{% param summary %}}

## Today's Objectives
- Analyze the role of human creativity in AI-assisted content generation.
- Evaluate the strengths and limitations of generative AI.

## Lesson Overview
### How does AI generate music?
{{< collapse summary="Click here to reveal the answer." >}}

- AI follows mathematical and statistical patterns to generate music.
- AI can blend sounds in innovative ways, but it does not compose music based on inspiration or human emotion.
- AI-generated music is built from existing patterns rather than original artistic intent.

{{</ collapse >}}

### How do you use AI as a creative tool?
{{< collapse summary="Click here to reveal the answer." >}}

- AI can generate ideas quickly, but humans must refine them to add originality and meaning.
- AI is useful in structured tasks, but humans bring emotional depth, intuition, and critical thinking.
- The best creative outcomes come from humans and AI working together.

{{</ collapse >}}

## Assignment
{{% instructions-unit-journal-update %}}

### Generate a Beat With AI
After completing Code.org level 1, record your answers to the following questions:

- Does this music sound creative? Why or why not?
- How does AI decide what beat patterns to generate?
- Is AI creating music, or is it following patterns from existing data?

### AI Remix Challenge
You’ve been selected as the student intern responsible for managing your school’s official social media account. Your job is to help promote events, celebrate achievements, and raise awareness about important issues in a clear, respectful, and engaging way. You’ll collaborate with an AI assistant to help plan, write, or revise social media posts.

Select and record a category and one of the example options:

| Category                           | Example Option                                                                                                                         |
|------------------------------------|----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
| School Event Promotion             | Write a post announcing and hyping up an upcoming school play, sports game, or dance.                                                  |
| School Event Promotion             | Create a series of posts highlighting Spirit Week themes and how to participate.                                                       |
| School Event Promotion             | Come up with your own school event idea - perhaps there is one actually happening at your school soon!                                 |
| Celebrations & Recognition         | Recognize student or teacher achievements (“Shout out to our robotics team for…”).                                                     |
| Celebrations & Recognition         | Celebrate a holiday or cultural event with inclusive language and respectful tone.                                                     |
| Celebrations & Recognition         | Come up with your own school celebration or recognition idea - perhaps there is one that makes sense to highlight at your school soon! |
| Educational or Awareness Campaigns | Raise awareness for an issue like bullying prevention, attendance, or digital citizenship.                                             |
| Educational or Awareness Campaigns | Explain how students can access school tech tools or homework help platforms.                                                          |
| Educational or Awareness Campaigns | Come up with your own school educational or awareness idea - perhaps there is an issue you want to bring awareness to at your school!  |
| Outreach & Recruitment             | Create a “Why You Should Choose Our School” post aimed at incoming 6th or 9th graders.                                                 |
| Outreach & Recruitment             | Highlight clubs or programs (e.g., “Here’s why you should join our coding club”).                                                      |
| Outreach & Recruitment             | Come up with your own school outreach or recruitment idea - perhaps there is one actually happening at your school soon!               |

#### Round 1: You = Pilot, AI Chat = Co-Pilot
Record a social media post based on the category and example you chose.

Then, go to Code.org level 2 to input your social media post into AI Chat and get suggestions for improvement. Revise and record your creative writing piece.

#### Round 2: AI Chat = Pilot, You = Co-Pilot
Go to level 3 and prompt AI Chat to write a social media post based on the category and example you chose. Record AI Chat's initial social media post.

Follow the instructions on level 3 to prompt the AI to revise its output. Record AI’s final version of the social media post.

{{% instructions-code-org-update %}}
{{% unit-journal-question-of-the-day question="How do human strengths and AI capabilities interact?" hint="Think about what the most valuable thing YOU contributed to the AI Remix Challenge was, what AI did well, and what AI struggled with." %}}