Dr. Sharony Green, a historian, addresses how she has minimized the negative effects of AI in education by assigning creative projects for her undergraduate students at the University of Alabama. Green, who specializes in U.S. history with a focus on the antebellum period, and her students have benefited greatly from visits to historical sites and museums on and off campus. Such efforts led to mounting installations such as “Slow Art Day” in conjunction with museums and galleries worldwide, the gathering of footage for documentaries and other projects as Green and her students deepened their attention to the historical record. They essentially used Tuscaloosa as a “lab” to explore our shared past. The varied assignment often have a written component and required use of archival material. Such approaches especially required original creative thought as they students delved into primary and secondary sources. Green also discusses how her aims were cataloged over a decade via blogs and social media posts, drawing ongoing student interest and even an invitation to write Teaching Public History Creatively in Alabama: About (Public) Face (Routledge, April 2024).
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