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TLS Mini-Series: Exploring Critical AI Literacy as a Learning Community
October 7 @ 11:00 am - 12:00 pm EDT
Facilitators:
Elaine Khoo, Associate Professor, Teaching Stream, Centre for Teaching and Learning, UTSC
Dina Soliman, Faculty Liaison, Educational Technology, Centre for Teaching and Learning, UTSC
Armando Rojas, UTSC Student
Jasmine Willy Saphira, UTSC Student
Yuseon Jeong, UTSC Student
In the fast-changing Generative AI (GenAI) landscape, re-examining roles of instructors and students allows higher education to capitalize on unique learning opportunities arising from the current climate of uncertainty. While universities are determining ways to deal with academic integrity in the age of AI, students need to learn the nature of AI – the good, the bad and the ugly – so that they are critical and ethical users. This session draws on a three-pronged approach of active learning about GenAI developed through a LEAF+ grant to explore creative and ethical uses of GenAI for equity-deserving students. This approach involves (a) developing critical AI literacy through the process of hands-on questioning and investigation; (b) academic integrity socialization (Khoo & Kang, 2022) for students to understand best practices for a genuine learning process as junior scholars; (c) cultivating a knowledge-building environment where students collectively advance community knowledge (Scardamalia & Bereiter, 2006). We will share the GenAI assignment ecology which is adaptable to different learning contexts, framed as manageable investigative projects, and the in-depth feedback mechanism which enabled every investigator to receive anonymous peer feedback which they use to improve their final assignment submission. Student co-presenters will share their experience with the GenAI tools they investigated or developed. Learning outcomes include (a) learning creative and ethical ways of using GenAI for the process of learning, (b) gaining insights on the benefits of students as partners in investigating GenAI, and (c) exploring guidelines for adapting this approach for different learning contexts.
Part of CTSI's Teaching and Learning Symposium: Mini-Series
