Colin Kaepernick visited DREAM Charter School on May 21 as students presented mini graphic novels they created using Lumi AI. About 200 students, families, and faculty members celebrated ten ninth graders whose projects generated visuals and text to represent major issues and related historical events. The novels were created in world history class, using Lumi AI to support storytelling and illustration. Kaepernick, a civil rights activist and founder of the tool, attended the presentations. Students explored themes such as power, climate change, and inequality, linking them to contemporary social justice concerns. Individual awards recognized each student’s work, including stories about migration and ICE raids and about inequality across the Haitian Revolution, U.S. civil rights, and modern protest movements.
"Around 200 students, families and faculty members celebrated 10 ninth graders who created mini graphic novels using Lumi AI to generate visuals representing major issues and the historical events tied to them. Created in their world history class, the students used Lumi AI to write text and generate illustrations that reflected the stories they developed as they presented their work to the former San Francisco 49ers quarterback and civil rights activist, who founded the tool."
""We have been spending time learning about how to responsibly and effectively utilize AI, thinking about competencies, how to respond bias, but also how do we build with AI and create new tools and new content, and tell our stories," said Adam Feiler-Ware, Deputy Chief of Learning at DREAM."
"Several of the projects explored the evolution of power, climate change and inequality while connecting those themes to present-day social justice issues, echoing Kaepernick's civil rights activism - in which he famously knelt during the national anthem at an NFL game in 2016 to protest racial inequality and police brutality."
"Ninth grader Meredith Ageyman's novel, "The Bridge Builder," examined migration throughout history and connected it to present-day ICE raids. Another student, Kimora Briscoe, highlighted the use of imagery in her novel, "Enduring Inequality," which guided readers through stages of the Haitian Revolution, the fight for civil rights in the United States and modern protest movements."
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