Teaching Critical Digital Literacies in the Age of Everyday Artificial Intelligence

• In Event: AERA Roundtable Session 8
  In Roundtable Session: Digital Literacies for Equitable Aims (Table 1)

Abstract

Although artificial intelligence (AI) has become increasingly ubiquitous and influential in our daily lives, it is rarely taught in formal educational settings outside of computer science courses, and is understudied in literacies research. This paper reports on two data collection phases of a design study seeking to bridge this gap through implementing and analyzing curriculum and pedagogy at the intersection of artificial intelligence, ethics, and literacy. Results of qualitative data analysis indicate that students used—and compared—both fictional and applied examples of AI to understand its role in our lives, overwhelmingly expressed resignation to use/be used by AIs despite ethical qualms, and were generally open to expressing and even changing ethical stances in the course of class discussion.

Author

• Sarah Burriss, Vanderbilt University