What is Generative AI? HUGE Classroom poster

55 megapixel poster that will look great on your classroom wall, right up to A1, if you want to print it that large.

Your first step to dealing with the scourge of AI-enabled cheating and plagiarism is to educate your students about what AI is, and what it is not. This classroom resource provides a visual breakdown of generative artificial intelligence, mapped to the requirements of the Key Stage 3 Computing curriculum. It avoids anthropomorphising the technology, focusing instead on the input-process-output model familiar to ICT students.

The poster is structured around four primary areas:

Inputs (Prompts): It illustrates how various data types—textual instructions, audio melodies, and image requests—initiate the generative process.

The Generative Model: A central graphic represents the engine that analyses and ingests vast datasets to identify underlying patterns.

Outputs: The result of the processing phase, encompassing digital assets such as scripts, emails, artwork, and sound effects.

Predictive Logic: The bottom section demystifies the “intelligence” by showing it as statistical prediction. This includes:

Textual prediction: Completing sentences based on contextual probability (e.g., predicting “mat” or “rug” to follow “The cat sat on the…”).

Visual completion: Predicting pixel placement and colour to form coherent images.

For a UK educator, this poster serves as a practical anchor for lessons on data representation, machine learning, and the societal impact of automation. It provides a technical framework for explaining how Large Language Models and diffusion models function without overcomplicating the underlying mathematics.