Artificial Intelligence (AI): Teaching AI Literacy

This guide helps instructors integrate generative AI into their courses to teach critical thinking and ethical use of information. It offers practical assignment ideas, such as using AI for brainstorming research topics, generating search terms, and evaluating AI output, along with considerations for FERPA, privacy, and academic integrity. Readers will be able to design assignments that engage students with AI tools while addressing limitations like hallucinations and lack of access to scholarly literature.

Task

Teaching AI literacy

Time

15 minutes

Level

beginner

Cost

Needs a licence — Requires a licence your institution may or may not hold.

Tools

ChatGPT, Elicit, Gemini, Copilot, LLaMA, Research Rabbit

Published

2026-09-10