AI Competency and AI-Facilitated Literacy Development: Voices from Teachers and Students

Overview

With the advent of ChatGPT, a generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) tool launched in 2022, researchers have been investigating the potentials and challenges of incorporating GenAI into education. Despite the dramatic impacts of GenAI, limited research has focused on different stakeholders’ experiences of employing GenAI in teaching and learning. To bridge the gap, this session puts together three educators' experiences of utilising GenAI in language assessments, curriculum design, and academic writing respectively. Together with their students' sharing, the three educators will discuss how ethical use of GenAI in teaching and learning can promote AI competency and facilitate student literacy development in both secondary education and higher education.

Both teachers' and students' voices will be presented in the seminar. On the one hand, detailed pedagogical designs involving GenAI will be showcased in the seminar with the hope of illuminating efficacious and ethical use of GenAI in language assessments, curriculum design, and academic writing in both secondary education and higher education. On the other hand, sharing their experience and views of the use of GenAI in their learning process, students of the speakers will exemplify how incorporation of GenAI into teaching and learning can promote AI competency and facilitate student literacy development.

The first part of this seminar (in English) elucidates potential ethical issues with GenAI tools and a teacher educator's ethical use of these tools in a way that protects user privacy and personal data and promotes academic integrity.

The second part of this seminar (in Putonghua) demonstrates how the integration of GenAI tools promotes curriculum innovation by providing more comprehensive content, offering students with up-to-date information and diverse perspectives.

The third part of this seminar (in Cantonese) provides suggestions on effective use of GenAI in the English language school-based assessment in Hong Kong senior secondary education.

Intended to cater for a global audience, the session will be conducted trilingually. AI technologies have transformed the way of teaching and learning based on advanced Open AI’s Large Language Models. In the new normalisation of digital education, studies have widely demonstrated how GenAI tools can generate high-quality, authentic, comprehensible dialogues and texts, lesson plans tailored to learner needs, and scaffold activities and tests to facilitate learning and teaching.