Developing an AI Critical Literacy Framework for DCE
Goal: Critical AI literacy is increasingly essential in higher education, as artificial intelligence becomes more deeply integrated into academic practices, research, and daily life. With a variety of AI literacy frameworks available in higher education—each offering different emphases and approaches—it is vital for faculty and staff to navigate this landscape thoughtfully. Establishing a shared understanding and common language around AI literacy not only empowers faculty and students to think critically about AI's capabilities and limitations, but also ensures alignment in teaching and learning across disciplines at DCE.
Our Faculty Learning Community
This faculty learning community, created in partnership with Teaching and Learning staff, is designed to address this need by carefully reviewing existing frameworks and collaboratively selecting or developing one that best serves the Division of Continuing Education (DCE). In doing so, the community will help set clear expectations and foster a unified approach to AI literacy for the benefit of all stakeholders.
The FLC will involve an approximately four month-long engagement starting in the fall. It begins by building on foundational work previously done by the organizing team and unfolds over four highly structured 90-minute sessions. In these sessions, participants will set goals and establish foundational principles, conduct a critical review of selected frameworks, collaborate to choose, tailor, and draft a new framework, and ultimately finalize it. The output of this process will be a co-created AI Literacy Framework tailored for the Division of Continuing Education, reflecting the diverse perspectives and collective expertise of the participating faculty.
Participation
Membership in the FLC is determined through a selection process, in order to achieve a community composition reflecting a variety of disciplinary perspectives, teaching experiences, and technical backgrounds.
Participants will commit to participating in all four sessions to review and commit to review and assess the frameworks.
In recognition of their contributions, participants will be recognized as AI Literacy Advisory Board Members.
If you are interested, please fill out the following interest form by September 23. If you are interested but can’t make the session times, or if you have questions, please reach out to Woden Teachout at wteach@fas.harvard.edu.