Type of Presentation
Individual paper/presentation
Conference Strand
Critical Literacy
Target Audience
Higher Education
Second Target Audience
Other
Faculty
Location
Ogeechee Theater
Relevance
In this session, we will share our approach to teaching a team of librarians AI literacy as a form of professional development and as a launching pad for a new online course for instructors.
Proposal
To prepare to teach and support AI literacy, we organized an internal mini-conference for our Academic Engagement department. During each session, librarians taught one another various AI-related modules (e.g., ethics, prompt design, tools) as though leading a real class with students. We encouraged the use of active learning strategies and asked participants to submit session proposals in advance so we could offer feedback. This approach to professional development allowed us to rapidly test and refine our instructional methods and deepen our AI expertise. This mini-conference also helped us generate valuable content—including lessons, slides, assessments, and activities — for an AI Literacy course we developed for our campus Learning Management System (LMS). In this session, we will discuss how we planned and developed this mini-conference, what we learned about the experience, and how we have adapted what we learned to inform our online learning and AI Literacy efforts.
Short Description
We organized an internal mini-conference where librarians taught AI modules to colleagues using active learning strategies. This professional development approach allowed us to test instructional methods, deepen expertise, and generate content for our campus AI Literacy course. We'll share our planning process, lessons learned, and how this experience informed our online learning initiatives.
Keywords
AI Literacy, Professional Development, Active Learning, Online Learning, Conference Planning
Publication Type and Release Option
Presentation (Open Access)
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Recommended Citation
Jones, Kelly and Christoffel, Chandler, "Teaching Ourselves AI Literacy" (2026). Georgia International Conference on Information Literacy. 26.
https://digitalcommons.georgiasouthern.edu/gaintlit/2026/2026/26
Teaching Ourselves AI Literacy
Ogeechee Theater
To prepare to teach and support AI literacy, we organized an internal mini-conference for our Academic Engagement department. During each session, librarians taught one another various AI-related modules (e.g., ethics, prompt design, tools) as though leading a real class with students. We encouraged the use of active learning strategies and asked participants to submit session proposals in advance so we could offer feedback. This approach to professional development allowed us to rapidly test and refine our instructional methods and deepen our AI expertise. This mini-conference also helped us generate valuable content—including lessons, slides, assessments, and activities — for an AI Literacy course we developed for our campus Learning Management System (LMS). In this session, we will discuss how we planned and developed this mini-conference, what we learned about the experience, and how we have adapted what we learned to inform our online learning and AI Literacy efforts.
