I want to preface my intention in creating this landing page: I created this landing page to debunk the paranoia around AI --instead of huffing and puffing at AI, and losing faith in a human being's capacity to critically think and 'do' for themselves--let us remind ourselves, that while yes, we live in a world that loves to enable, enable, enable--I mean our phones literally do everything for us--information is overstimulating our brains to the point where it is so easy to forget to pause, self-assess, and reflect. 

In the spirit of remembering to pause, self-asses, and reflect, I want to remind my readers, and fellow teacher practitioners to ask critical questions about the information we are consuming--literally, we are eating words, texts for breakfast, lunch, and dinner without pausing to identify the ingredients used to make the meal--without pausing to ask critical questions about the texts we read. 

I created this landing page to remind my readers to treat AI just as we treat the internet when conducting basic google searches, with caution, with skepticism, train your students and yourself to evaluate the basis of an idea, to critique and interrogate 'facts' that so often are presented without discussing complexity and nuances. If ever there was a time for us all to think about what student centered learning means, and what it means to personalize assignments, it's now! And incorporate AI into your classroom instruction--that is, provide learning opportunities for students to critique AI information, and to call on students to evaluate how AI discusses topics, and to use critical inquiry to add to the conversation. 

For instance, ask students to pick a topic, explore the topic using Chat GPT. Instruct students to evaluate how the topic is being discussed:

• What did you learn about your topic after using Chat GPT?

• After exploring your topic using Chat GPT, are there any gaps in your understanding of this topic? Whose voices and perspectives might be missing?

• How do other sources both online, and primary sources discuss your topic? 

Current Critical Inquiries of AI and their Implications for Teaching and Learning....

This excerpt was extracted from the research article below, to highlight the significance of the inquiry into AI -as cited in Muldoon and Wu (2023).

 "We approach this research with sensitivity and humility, acknowledging that our perspectives are inevitably influenced by our own social, cultural and epistemological standpoints. We address a number of exploratory research questions: 

• Which aspects of AI production reinforce extractive social, economic and political dynamics within the colonial matrix of power? 

• How do historical Western imaginaries of modernity and technological progress shape the material and knowledge production of current AI development? 

• How do these link to existing scholarship on AI harms and what are the possibilities of exploring alternative models to the current paradigm of AI development? 

• We expand on three ways that AI can be located within the colonial matrix of power. 

• First, we discuss the colonial supply chain of AI, demonstrating how AI’s production reinforces the legacies of historical colonialism evidenced in global economic and political power imbalances. 

• Second, AI is produced through an international division of digital labor that extracts value from the labor of workers in the majority world, generating profits for Western technology companies. The labor distribution of AI work across the globe concentrates the most stable, well-paid and desirable jobs located in key technology hubs in the West and the most precarious, low-paid and dangerous work exported to workers in the majority world. 

• Third, AI perpetuates hegemonic knowledge production through the discursive and material enactments of AI’s purported universality and rationality that perpetuates a frame of Western-centrism that marginalizes non-Western alternatives and possibilities for decolonizing AI. 

• We conclude by highlighting the social and political consequences of AI production in the colonial matrix of power and point towards the work of scholars and activists who are exploring alternatives to the current world-system within which AI is built." Engage with the article below for more information. I will be adding to this landing page soon..