Learning activity

Enhancing AI literacy through interactive reading

Help students reflect on their current use of generative AI, identify biases and risks, and develop metacognitive strategies for effective, ethical, and responsible integration.

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Created by:

Isaac Ka Chun WAN

Pedagogy

Blended learning

Learning outcome

Prep time

Intermediate (10-30 min)

Activity type

Learning Activity

Why this learning activity?

Learning activities targeting high-order skills like this one can help you activate students more effectively. This learning activity will help you with:

Build foundational AI literacy

Students will recognize core GenAI concepts, common risks like bias and hallucination, and describe when AI support is appropriate.

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Practice critical social annotation

Students will annotate, question, and respond to peers using provided criteria while grounding claims in the readings.

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Reflect and translate to practice

Students will write a brief reflection that turns insights into simple rules of thumb for responsible AI use.

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Enhancing AI literacy through interactive reading

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Activity steps

Read instructions: Students review the activity instructions to understand the requirements and expectations.
Social annotation: Students will read the articles attached about AI literacy and answer 4 question cards presented by the instructor. They will also participate in 5 discussion threads (required) created by the teacher as well as create their own and interact with peer threads as well.
Reflection: Students conclude the activity by writing a reflection that captures their key takeaways and insights from the exercise.‍
Grading: Instructors assess students’ participation and assign a grade based on completion

Learning Activities Used

Interactive Document

Student-Content engagement to stimulate student success

In this activity

This template has a collection of articles about AI literacy in the interactive document. You can switch this with a document of your choice.
There are 4 question cards and 5 discussion threads already created as in-document activities, you can add or change any of these to suit the needs of your class.
Students can create their own discussion threads and they also must post 5 threads in total to complete the activity.
Anonymity is disabled, allowing students to see who authored each discussion post, though this setting can be adjusted if needed.
A reflection step is included, prompting students to connect the content to their personal practice and identify actionable takeaways. There is a minimum of 150 words and instructions are provided to guide students.

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