This set of slides accompanied a presentation I just finished as part of the University of Kent Digitally Enhanced Education Webinar series hosted and organised by Dr Phil Anthony. Phil has grown a huge following and it gave me a heck of a buzz of nerves when I saw how many people were in attendance.

My tuppence worth at the start was an exploration of the shifting dynamics of AI literacy efforts at King’s. Luckily I didn’t dwell on defining AI literacy (or other literacies) nor did I want to labour the actual interventions we have experimented with: colleagues from other institutions covered that ground better than I could have done. What I tried to do was to show one slice of the complexity in terms of staff attitudes and responses from enthusiasm to scepticism and to resistance and account a little for that. There are many key tensions, institutional dilemmas and the practical realities shaping engagement with generative AI. We’re still working on honing the approach at King’s College London, including support structures, faculty, department and programme level interventions and policy considerations and we definitely have yet to nail the way we resource the literacy work, programme and assessment modfication work and infrastructure work across the board. Talking about it though (and also this week compiling a report on AI related work) did make me realise how amazing so many folk are at work. The effort and willingness to share, debate, experiment, research, design etc etc from staff and students is remarkable.

Watch recording:

Not sure how useful the slides are without me wittering on but the links are there so Access the full slides here: tiny.cc/deew1 or click the image below