Reflections Through AI: Visualizing Learning, Emotion, and Mindset

Attendees will learn about narrative identity, using AI as a reflective tool, and create a reflective artifact using AI. Narrative identities are stories that can help students make sense of their prior learning experiences. Negative experiences in math classrooms can influence students’ perceptions of the subject and sometimes cause negative feelings or anxiety towards learning math. For years, I have used drawing in conjunction with written explanation to observe my students’ thoughts and emotions towards learning mathematics. In my most recent iteration of using this activity in an undergraduate math class, one student described their feelings of learning math to Chat GPT and Chat GPT produced an image. This image connected the student to their unconscious image of math. The student will describe how AI helped shift their emotions towards math to a more positive mindset. Ideas will be shared for activities to showcase how AI can serve as a medium for students to visualize and process their emotional connections to learning, discuss how AI can be used as a tool for reflection, and, more broadly, how this use of AI can improve the teaching and learning culture.