Putting the “Literacy” in AI Literacy: Disciplinary Views on Critical AI Practices

• In Event: Roundtable Session V
  In Roundtable Session: Reviewing the Digital Literacies Landscape

Abstract

“AI literacy” has become a common term, especially in computer science circles, with deep consequences for what counts as both AI education and sanctioned literacy practice. In this paper, we provide a “loving critique” of, Long & Magerko’s (2020) seminal paper outlining AI literacy competencies, critically examining this framing of AI literacy through the lens of disciplinary literacy theory and history, offering thoughts for a more liberatory view of how we could conceptualize "AI literacy."

Authors

• Sarah K Burriss, Vanderbilt University

• Sarah Elizabeth Jerasa, Clemson University

• Melanie Hundley, Vanderbilt University

• Blaine Smith, Vanderbilt University

• Emily Pendergrass, Vanderbilt University