Community Information

This community is being offered by the CFE in collaboration with the Office of the Provost.

Community Duration: Fall 2024

Meeting Schedule, Modality & Location: 

• Tuesday, September 3, 10:30-11:20 a.m. (online via Zoom) -- CANCELLED
• Tuesday, September 17, 10:30-11:20 a.m. (online via Zoom)
• Tuesday, October 1, 10:30-11:20 a.m. (online via Zoom)
• Tuesday, October 15, 10:30-11:20 a.m. (online via Zoom)
• Tuesday, October 29, 10:30-11:20 a.m. (online via Zoom)
• Tuesday, November 12, 10:30-11:20 a.m. (online via Zoom)
• Tuesday, December 3, 10:30-11:20 a.m. (online via Zoom)

Community Participants:

All full-time qualified rank faculty (QRF) and tenure-track faculty (TTF) from all BGSU colleges, schools, departments, and programs.

Community Description:

This learning community is designed to support the development of classroom practices that help students promote critical thinking skills by fostering AI literacy. Each week, we will explore one of five dimensions to AI literacy: 1) human-first thinking, 2) how generative AI works, 3) prompt generation, 4) ethical use, including issues of bias and inclusion, and 5) assessing output use. Intended for full-time BGSU faculty, this community meets virtually every two weeks to facilitate group discussions of readings and peer reviews of classroom materials, with the goal of creating a classroom assessment, revising an existing course, or outlining a new course to foster AI literacy. Our experience together will provide opportunities to network with colleagues and provide peer feedback on classroom materials while creating a group of alumni who can share best practices for fostering AI literacy to members of their departments and the larger BGSU community. 

Community Learning Outcomes:

By participating in this community, you will be able to:

• Describe the dimensions of AI literacy.
• Explain how generative AI can support the critical thinking of students.
• Apply dimensions of AI literacy to classroom practice.
• Design classroom assessments that foster AI literacy.

Participant Expectations:*

As a member of this community, you are expected to:

• Meet the community learning outcomes.
• Actively participate in and attend at least 80% of the learning community's meetings.
• Submit a classroom assessment, revision of an existing course, or outline a new course that fosters AI literacy.
• Participate in a final discussion board post reflecting on classroom implementation.

*Participants in this community must meet the stated participant expectations in order to be eligible to receive funds for participation.