Week 2: AI Literacy

Tuesday, June 9 from 4:00-5:30 p.m. PST

Zoom: https://uci.zoom.us/j/99438557326

Readings

• Ng, D. T. K., Leung, J. K. L., Chu, S. K. W., & Qiao, M. S. (2021). Conceptualizing AI literacy: An exploratory review. Computers and Education: Artificial Intelligence, 2, 100041. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.caeai.2021.100041

• Long, D., & Magerko, B. (2020, April). What is AI literacy? Competencies and design considerations. In Proceedings of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (pp. 1–16). ACM. [Video, 14 min: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=udhSv1aihdM]

• Mollick, E. (n.d.). Centaurs and cyborgs on the jagged frontier. One Useful Thing. https://www.oneusefulthing.org/p/centaurs-and-cyborgs-on-the-jagged

• Paris, P., & Hooper, T. (2026, Jan 26). Strategic annoyance: Why privacy matters for higher ed. [Podcast] Educause Shop Talk.  (50:59) https://er.educause.edu/podcasts/educause-shop-talk/2026/strategic-annoyance-why-privacy-matters-for-higher-ed

Slides: Slides 18-34

Due: Thursday, June 11

Create a short explainer (with accompanying 1-3 sentence statement) that responds to the weekly prompt provided by the instructor.

Prompt: "What is AI?" If you are new to AI, you might (1) compare what 2 different chatbots tell you when you ask it this question using the same prompt for each, or (2) ask a chatbot to create a handout that explains this to your students, telling the bot a bit about who your students are and their context.

Where to Submit: Link here to your text, image, video, podcast .....

See this document for instructions on the Weekly Explainers.

Due: Saturday, June 13

Each week, you will engage with two peers’ explainers and provide constructive, professional feedback on each. You can find the links to the explainers and the place to link each of your peer reviews in this spreadsheet (look at Tab 2 for Week 2)

See this document for instructions on peer review for the Weekly Explainers.

Due: Sunday, June 14

Each week, submit a brief reflective journal entry (approximately 100–300 words) about your AI use during that week’s course activities. Email to tatet@uci.edu to submit (unless she already has the link to a running Google Doc).

See this document for instructions on the Reflective Journal.