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AI Literacy and Your Information Literacy Teaching Practice
Samantha Godbey, Xan Goodman
University of Nevada Las Vegas, United States of America
The increasing availability of generative artificial intelligence (AI) tools has proven to be a major disruptor in education at all levels, as instructors and students grapple with effective and ethical uses of AI. Students and researchers are using generative AI tools in myriad ways, including as information sources, as generators and editors of academic writing, and as shortcuts to research. As such, the prevalence of generative AI offers both challenges and opportunities to librarians engaged in information literacy instruction (Cox, 2024). This workshop will explore ways in which we can use the concepts in the Association of College and Research Libraries’ Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Education (ACRL Framework) to guide our work with students around AI literacy and AI ethics (Association of College and Research Libraries, 2015). Topics covered will include a discussion of the ACRL Framework as related to AI literacy and an exploration of specific teaching methods useful in AI literacy instruction. In this workshop, participants will examine and discuss the ACRL Framework with an emphasis on knowledge practices and dispositions relevant to AI. Through a combination of lecture, small group discussion, and hands-on activities, participants will acquire a fundamental understanding of the relationship between information literacy and AI literacy and develop a ten- to fifteen-minute activity they can use with students to develop their AI literacy. Participants will learn about different types of active learning activities and plan an activity relevant to their own teaching context, including considerations such as timing and assessment. Resources for teaching AI literacy and specific examples of successful learning activities will be provided. As a result of this workshop, participants will leave with one or more activities they can use in their information literacy instruction. The target audience includes any academic librarian involved in instruction at any level of teaching experience; strategies discussed in this workshop can be integrated into one-shot library instruction sessions or longer, for-credit courses. Participants may choose to focus on synchronous or asynchronous instructional methods or to draft a plan for an online resource for students. Participants are encouraged to have read the six frames in the ACRL Framework document prior to the workshop. No specific equipment is required.
References
Association of College and Research Libraries. (2015). Framework for information literacy for higher education. Retrieved January 27, 2025 from http://www.ala.org/acrl/standards/ilframework
Cox, A. M. (2024). Academic librarian competencies and artificial intelligence. South African Journal of Libraries and Information Science, 90(2), 1–9. https://doi.org/10.7553/90-2-2405
