another post in the wall

Essentials of Digital Literacies Over AI Literacies

Found this piece about Dimensions of AI Literacies via the Bionic Teaching Weekly Web Harvest.

Another set of literacies. I like the structure but wonder how many different sets of literacies we have at this point- multimodal, computational thinking, digital, etc. etc. There is likely a point where you have to have things that apply broadly enough that you don’t have to rethink it with each new evolution of technology. h/t Sarah LWWoodward

I agree with Tom’s sentiment here. The plurality of unnecessary “literacies” has only gotten worse in the previous two years as people and organizations attempt to lay claim to the field. No new literacy, especially if it’s an “AI Literacy” framework is necessary if you reference Doug Belshaw’s work on the Essential Elements of Digital Literacy (this PDF is more digestible than the full dissertation, What is ‘Digital Literacy?’, but that work was well worth reading if literacies as an area of study is your jam). So while it was initially heartening to see the AI Literacies pointed to in the Web Harvest, it was also disappointing in that it ads to the fire hose of AI Literacy frameworks rather than reinforcing an existing framework that adequately covers new digital technologies, like GenAI.