AI Literacy Student Workshop

At one point or another, most teachers will have received student writing that was clearly produced with the help of translation software and/or AI tools. We believe that without further reflection, the ad hoc use of these tools by students tends to prevent learning, rather than facilitate it. For this reason, we developed a student workshop that seeks to equip students with the knowledge necessary to support their own learning processes (cf. Falck [2024]; Bowen and Watson [2024]). While “AI literacy” generally refers to a host of social, political, and economic concerns such as AI hallucinations, bias, deepfakes, copyright, data protection, and the environmental costs of training AI systems (cf. Crawford [2022]), we do not seek to provide a general framework for all the possible uses of AI in student work. Rather, our workshop has a more specific aim: it concentrates on the productive use of AI for language learning, specifically for writing. Our workshop is modular, and other teachers can use the materials that we developed in their own classes.