Welcome to GICOIL24 & Keynote Address: Teaching Critical and Practical AI Literacies: Ways to Get Started with Anna Mills
Type of Presentation
Individual paper/presentation
Conference Strand
Critical Literacy
Target Audience
Higher Education
Proposal
AI looms large in our students’ futures, but exalting it will not help them. In order to use it effectively, students across all educational contexts need practice critiquing its outputs. Throughout this interactive presentation, I’ll do my best to encourage and respond to questions and discussion in the chat. I’ll start by sharing memorable microlessons demonstrating flaws in AI like bias, hallucination, and lack of understanding. Building on that foundation, we’ll look at ways to use and critique AI tools with students to help support existing learning outcomes around research and reading even as we build AI literacy.
Language model-based tools can help students brainstorm topics and identify related questions and search terms. They can assist with finding, summarizing, translating, and comparing sources. Unlike the original ChatGPT, emerging research tools such as Perplexity, Keenious, Consensus, and Elicit and more general tools like ChatGPT Plus, Copilot, and Gemini do reference real sources. Yet they can still lead us astray by misrepresenting sources, leaving out sources and source content, favoring certain sources over others, or interfering with important thinking we need to do ourselves. I’ll demonstrate several of these tools and encourage brief individual experiments; then I’ll invite participants to weigh in through a live poll on their own planned next steps. I hope the presentation will leave participants with at least one new activity they want to try to guide students toward critical and practical engagement with AI.
Publication Type and Release Option
Presentation (Open Access)
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 4.0 License
Recommended Citation
Mills, Anna; Mendenhall, Annie; and Carmichael, Lisandra R., "Welcome to GICOIL24 & Keynote Address: Teaching Critical and Practical AI Literacies: Ways to Get Started with Anna Mills" (2024). Georgia International Conference on Information Literacy. 1.
https://digitalcommons.georgiasouthern.edu/gaintlit/2024/2024/1
Welcome to GICOIL24 & Keynote Address: Teaching Critical and Practical AI Literacies: Ways to Get Started with Anna Mills
AI looms large in our students’ futures, but exalting it will not help them. In order to use it effectively, students across all educational contexts need practice critiquing its outputs. Throughout this interactive presentation, I’ll do my best to encourage and respond to questions and discussion in the chat. I’ll start by sharing memorable microlessons demonstrating flaws in AI like bias, hallucination, and lack of understanding. Building on that foundation, we’ll look at ways to use and critique AI tools with students to help support existing learning outcomes around research and reading even as we build AI literacy.
Language model-based tools can help students brainstorm topics and identify related questions and search terms. They can assist with finding, summarizing, translating, and comparing sources. Unlike the original ChatGPT, emerging research tools such as Perplexity, Keenious, Consensus, and Elicit and more general tools like ChatGPT Plus, Copilot, and Gemini do reference real sources. Yet they can still lead us astray by misrepresenting sources, leaving out sources and source content, favoring certain sources over others, or interfering with important thinking we need to do ourselves. I’ll demonstrate several of these tools and encourage brief individual experiments; then I’ll invite participants to weigh in through a live poll on their own planned next steps. I hope the presentation will leave participants with at least one new activity they want to try to guide students toward critical and practical engagement with AI.
