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This week kicked off a stretch of conferences for me, starting with the EDUCAUSE Annual Conference online event. I participated in a panel alongside Tawnya Means, Lee Rainie, and Ravi Pendse, wonderfully moderated by Colleen Flaherty. The topic was What Keeps Higher Ed Leaders Up at Night: EdTech Edition.
What did I read in all those insomnia fueled hours?
The post I wish I had written - the rant about AI literacy
Carl Hendrick at Learning Dispatch had a post about the term du jour, AI literacy, that had me cheering out loud and trying to teach my beagle to high-five. I’m seriously considering memorizing the entire thing and standing up to quote it verbatim the next time someone at a conference insists that the real issue is that we need to develop AI literacy in students.
To be fair, anyone who starts a post with a quote from The Princess Bride has already won me over.
Carl comes out swinging, taking aim at the tendency to slap a new “literacy” label on every issue affecting education - “media literacy, digital literacy, data literacy, financial literacy, emotional literacy, and most recently, AI literacy.”
He then unpacks the vacuousness of the concept by dissecting the recent OECD definition.
