Computational Literacies Lab

1. Introductions

Week 2 (February 2)

Assigned: A. Initial conjectures

We will meet each other, sketch out the course, and lay down some frameworks for thinking about the potential role of AI in education.

Agenda

  1. Introductions. Each participant will introduce themselves and share one concrete example of using generative AI.
  2. Disucssion: What are AI literacies? How do these ideas intersect with our own research interests?
  3. Course overview.
  4. Conjecture mapping. Chris will introduce the first assignment with an example.

Preparation

  1. Please complete this short survey to help me learn about you and to fine-tune the course.
  2. Create a brief introduction in the Google Drive folder shared via email. Copy the "Template" document (within the Introductions folder) and follow the instructions. We will use these presentations to introduce ourselves, and we will each share one example of an experience using AI (understood very broadly) for work, study, or any other purpose.
  3. There are two assigned readings, below. Additionally, please read Kafai & Proctor's (2022) Educational Researcher article if you have not previously. As you read, please think about the various definitions of AI literacy(-ies), and how the ideas and themes in these readings intersect with your own research interests.

Readings

Long, D., Roberts, J., Magerko, B., Holstein, K., DiPaola, D., & Martin, F. (2023 , April). AI Literacy: Finding Common Threads between Education, Design, Policy, and Explainability. Extended Abstracts of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (pp. 1–6). ACM. doi:10.1145/3544549.3573808

Proctor, C., & Rish, R. (2025). The Song Need Not Remain the Same: AI Literacies in the Lives of Youth. In J. D. DeHart, S. Abas, R. A. Mora, & D. G. Pyles (Eds.), Reimagining Literacy in the Age of AI: Theory and Practice (pp. 135–151). CRC Press.

Additional resources for conceptualizing AI literacies

Kafai, Y. B., & Proctor, C. (2022). A Revaluation of Computational Thinking in K-12 Education: Moving Towards Computational Literacies. Educational Researcher, 51(2), 146–151. https://doi.org/10.3102/0013189X211057904

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. doi:10.1016/j.caeai.2021.100041

Touretzky, D., Gardner-McCune, C., Martin, F., & Seehorn, D. (2019 , July. Envisioning AI for K-12: What Should Every Child Know about AI? Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 33(01), 9795–9799. doi:10.1609/aaai.v33i01.33019795