AI Literacy Must Be a Critical Literacy: Why, How, and How Not to Do It : Lehigh University

About the Event

Artificial intelligence (AI) is not just another technology, rising to take its place among the other digital tools that teachers and students use every day. AI brings with it serious questions about ethics, epistemology, and the fundamental processes of education.

To use AI well — and to know when not to use AI — teachers and students need to understand AI, not just the nuts and bolts of how to use it.

Instead, AI literacy needs to be a critical literacy, allowing us to use it in an informed context: understanding of how it does (and doesn't) work, aware of the tradeoffs involved in its use, and respecting the essential role of the user.

This talk will illustrate approaches to teaching AI literacy that address these principles.

Cost: Free to attend

Staff Contact: Bryce Neff

About Our Speaker

Thomas C. Hammond is an associate professor in the Teaching, Learning, and Technology program in Lehigh's College of Education. Before coming to Lehigh, he taught social studies and computer science for ten years before earning his Ph.D. in instructional technology at the University of Virginia. His teaching and research focuses on AI literacy, geospatial technologies, and virtual environments.