Type of Presentation
Individual paper/presentation
Conference Strand
Critical Literacy
Target Audience
Higher Education
Second Target Audience
K-12
Location
Ballroom B
Relevance
This proposal relates to teaching and information literacy as it addresses AI as being part of the creation, consumption, and dissemination of information. AI is part of information literacy at this point under the sub-category of AI literacy, and is a growing field well worth exploring in the broader context of information studies. My particular proposal deals with how AI literacy is implemented in a required course for my university’s new Information Studies minor.
Proposal
Generative AI has impacted the creation, consumption, and dissemination of information across disciplines. Information, Culture, and Society is an online undergraduate course that is foundational to the Information Studies minor at Purdue University. In this course, students examine how information, culture, and society have shaped and affected one another in the past, present, and how they might continue to influence one another in the future. In order to enhance the lessons pertaining to the future of information, culture, and society, specifically focusing on AI, the instructor participated in a university-led AI Academy program to learn about available AI tools and AI literacy, ultimately developing a lesson that both encourages and enhances AI literacy among students. In this activity, students select a context affected by AI and conduct their own research on the subject in addition to conducting research using multimodal generative AI programs that are new to them. Here, they critically evaluate their own findings as well as the output of generative AI across different formats, including text, images, and video, examining the benefits and shortcomings of each and reflecting upon the broader questions of how these tools impact information, culture, and society. Moreover, they examine the utility and applicability of these tools in their research and scholarship. This presentation aims to showcase the development of an AI literacy activity and the preliminary findings of this study.
Short Description
Generative AI is transforming how information is created and shared. In Purdue’s Information, Culture, and Society course, students explore AI’s societal impacts through a new AI literacy activity. After training in AI tools, the instructor designed an assignment where students critically assess AI-generated content across media, fostering research skills and reflection on AI’s role in shaping information, culture, and society.
Keywords
ai, ai literacy, information studies, higher education, information literacy
Publication Type and Release Option
Presentation (Open Access)
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 License.
Recommended Citation
Bochenek, Annette, "Teaching the Future: Incorporating Generative AI Use in an Information Studies Course" (2026). Georgia International Conference on Information Literacy. 10.
https://digitalcommons.georgiasouthern.edu/gaintlit/2026/2026/10
Teaching the Future: Incorporating Generative AI Use in an Information Studies Course
Ballroom B
Generative AI has impacted the creation, consumption, and dissemination of information across disciplines. Information, Culture, and Society is an online undergraduate course that is foundational to the Information Studies minor at Purdue University. In this course, students examine how information, culture, and society have shaped and affected one another in the past, present, and how they might continue to influence one another in the future. In order to enhance the lessons pertaining to the future of information, culture, and society, specifically focusing on AI, the instructor participated in a university-led AI Academy program to learn about available AI tools and AI literacy, ultimately developing a lesson that both encourages and enhances AI literacy among students. In this activity, students select a context affected by AI and conduct their own research on the subject in addition to conducting research using multimodal generative AI programs that are new to them. Here, they critically evaluate their own findings as well as the output of generative AI across different formats, including text, images, and video, examining the benefits and shortcomings of each and reflecting upon the broader questions of how these tools impact information, culture, and society. Moreover, they examine the utility and applicability of these tools in their research and scholarship. This presentation aims to showcase the development of an AI literacy activity and the preliminary findings of this study.
