Editor’s Note: Please join us in welcoming Eleanor Ball, Information Literacy & Liaison Librarian and Assistant Professor of Instruction at the University of Northern Iowa, as a new First Year Academic Librarian Experience blogger for the 2025-26 year here at ACRLog. I’m about as anti-AI as they come. I’ve never used it, and I’m ethically

How can educators critically engage with the affordances provided by Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) while remaining committed to the core tenets of the multiliteracies project, such as ...

Search might be a better approach for learning about the world, but the right comparisons matter

Embedding Ethics for Audiences aged 14–19

Artificial intelligence is rapidly transforming every facet of education, both for learners, educators, and leaders alike. In this time of great change, how ...

Civics of Tech Announcements Civics of Tech Parent Testimonials, by 11/1/24 - Read Allie’s blog post and click here by November 1, 2024 to submit your testimonial about how educational technologies are manifesting in your child(ren)’s schooling. Monthly Tech Talk on Tuesday, 11/12/

I’ve written a lot, on and off, about the importance of developing critical AI literacy, but I realize now that it is not enough, and I’ve recently started thinking about all of this wi…

“This collection of AI stories and examples in education exemplifies citizen science at its finest. It captures the authentic voices of individuals who are actively testing and expanding their AI literacy, sharing their experiences to support and inspire others. Through their contributions, they collectively advance our understanding and application of AI in educational settings, showcasing the true spirit of community-driven learning and innovation. Your feedback is encouraged; this story is only beginning".   Dr Margaret Korosec, Dean of Online and Digital Education, University of Leeds This is the second open crowdsourced collection by #creativeHE which presents creative and critical practices, perspective and purposes from educators, researchers and students between September 2023 and January 2024.  We are grateful for all 119 contributions from 22 countries including Argentina, Australia, Bangladesh, Brazil, Canada, China, Egypt, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Mexico, Netherlands, Slovenia, South Africa, Spain, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, Uruguay. As the collection is made available under the Creative Commons License CC-BY-NC-SA licence, anybody can use the collection as open data to further interrogate the use of AI in Education. Please share any resulting outcomes with the editorial team and the wider community.  The collection has been generously supported by the Imagination Lab Foundation through the Playful Hybrid Higher Education project (https://playhybrid.education/) led by Sandra Abegglen and situated in the School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape at the University of Calgary. Thanks go also to #creativeHE of which we, the editors, are all part of and that has acted as supporter of the creative AI collections from the very beginning. The #creativeHE community hosts all calls and dissemination activities for the AI collections on their website: https://creativehecommunity.wordpress.com/ - A special thank you to Leonor Agüero Vivas for the beautiful design.-

Academic and technologies teams at Barnard College developed an AI literacy framework to provide a conceptual foundation for AI education and programm

Combining AI Literacy with Core Humanities Learning Goals: Practical, Critical, and Playful Approaches Anna Mills, College of Marin Keynote Presentation for California State University, Northridge May 2, 2024 Licensed CC BY NC 4.0

Accelerating the adoption of artificial intelligence across the tertiary education sector.

Artificial intelligence is already transforming education, the workplace, and society.   These principles have been created by Jisc in partnership with the Association of Colleges (AoC) Technology Reference Group. They are intended for colleges to adopt as a statement of intent, guiding strategic direction. They aim to help colleges navigate challenges and maximising the opportunities […]

On Tuesday 27th February, we had our third community meeting. We had a great group who joined us for an insightful discussion around how to provide learners with guidance around AI. The first half of our session was led by AI Technologist, James Hodgkinson, who began with a poll, asking whether their institutions had produced […]

We've had lots of interest in the best way to provide advice to students in colleges.  In this blog post we’ve created an example of learner advice.

AI is of course much more than just generative AI, and a full discussion around AI literacy would need to cover more traditional AI uses too, for example predictive models, adaptive learning, image recognition, recommendation engines and many other tools and techniques.  Generative AI is the hot topic now though, so the groups discussion focused […]

If you’ve been following this blog, you know I’ve written about critical AI literacy, and as I’ve keynoted, taught, and workshopped this, I’ve been developing my model furth…

This study explores how discussing metaphors for AI can help build awareness of the frames that shape our understanding of AI systems, particularly large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT. Given the pressing need to teach “critical AI literacy”, discussion of metaphor provides an opportunity for inquiry and dialogue with space for nuance, playfulness, and critique. Using a collaborative autoethnographic methodology, we analyzed metaphors from a range of sources, and reflected on them individually according to seven questions, then met and discussed our interpretations. We then analyzed how our reflections contributed to the three kinds of literacies delineated in Selber’s multiliteracies framework: functional, critical and rhetorical. These allowed us to analyze questions of ethics, equity, and accessibility in relation to AI. We explored each metaphor along the dimension of whether or not it was promoting anthropomorphizing, and to what extent such metaphors imply that AI is sentient. Our findings highlight the role of metaphor reflection in fostering a nuanced understanding of AI, suggesting that our collaborative autoethnographic approach as well as the heuristic model of plotting AI metaphors on dimensions of anthropomorphism and multiliteracies, might be useful for educators and researchers in the pursuit of advancing critical AI literacy.

Exploring a possible Artificial Intelligence (AI) literacy framework for staff and students.

h/t Chronicle reporter You know something big is happening when the CEO of Open AI, the creators of ChatGPT, starts advocating for “regulatory guardrails”. Sam Altman testified to the US Senate Judiciary Committee this w…

Resources for teaching about artificial intelligence provided by the Stanford Graduate School of Education