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AI Literacy in Higher Ed: Balancing Critique and Curiosity with Dr.Anna Mills

October 19, 2024 • Kimberly Becker & Jessica Parker • Season 1 • Episode 6

Join hosts Drs. Jessica and Kimberly as they welcome their first guest, Dr. Anna Mills, a leader in integrating AI in education. With 18 years of community college writing instruction experience, Anna shares her insights on AI literacy, academic integrity, and the evolving landscape of AI in higher education.

Key topics discussed:
-AI literacy and its importance in education
-Balancing critical thinking and AI integration in writing courses
-The evolution of using generative AI in writing instruction
-Combining peer feedback with AI feedback in student assignments
-The challenges and opportunities of AI in teaching and learning
-Building custom chatbots for educational purposes
-The importance of educators' voices in shaping AI tools and policies

Here are Dr. Anna Mills' AI resource list:

🔗Anna Mills' website and resources: https://www.annarmills.com/
🔗"Assistant, Parrot, or..." publication: https://openpraxis.org/articles/10.55982/openpraxis.16.1.631
🔗Stuart Selber's framework for literacies: https://www.amazon.com/Multiliteracies-Digital-Studies-Writing-Rhetoric/dp/0809325519
🔗MyEssayFeedback.ai website: https://myessayfeedback.ai/
🔗AI Pedagogy Project website: https://aipedagogy.org/
🔗NIST US AI Safety Institute MLA team: https://www.nist.gov/artificial-intelligence/ai-safety-institute-consortium
🔗Anna Mills' "How Arguments Work": https://open.umn.edu/opentextbooks/textbooks/1112
🔗Ethan Mollick's Twitter & LinkedIn: https://twitter.com/emollick; https://www.linkedin.com/in/emollick/
🔗Jose Bowen's "Teaching with AI": https://www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/53869/teaching-ai
🔗Critical AI Institute at Rutgers: https://criticalai.org/
🔗Maha Bali's blog: https://blog.mahabali.me/
🔗Anuj Gupta's AI literacy work: https://www.linkedin.com/in/anuj-gupta-3533541a1/
🔗CCC AI Learn hashtag: Search #CCCAILearn on Twitter
🔗"You Look Like a Thing and I Love You": https://www.janelleshane.com/book-you-look-like-a-thing
🔗"The Wild Robot" book: https://www.peterbrownstudio.com/books/the-wild-robot/ and movie: https://www.thewildrobotmovie.com/
🔗Alison Gopnik's work: https://simons.berkeley.edu/news/stone-soup-ai
🔗Anna’s AI literacy micro-lessons: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KirvJ6kv3m0
🔗Joy Buolamwini's work: https://www.media.mit.edu/p