The Super Bowl isn't just a showcase of top-tier football; it's also prime time for some of the most creative and high-budget advertisements of the year. This presents a perfect, informal classroom setting to engage with kids about media literacy. By asking the right questions, we can help them develop critical thinking skills that will aid them in navigating the complex media landscape they're growing up in.

My latest experiment delved into AI-based avatars, using HeyGen, a platform to create videos with ai-generated avatars and audio. (Generative AI, or genAI, refers to artificial intelligence that can generate new content, be it text, images, or even interactive experiences.) In this experiment, my goal was to create two videos: one of myself and one of my AI-generated avatar, both saying the same script about Betweened.

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I never anticipated a mother-daughter chat that would begin with “We need to talk about what a press embargo means.