Led by Stacy Wittstock, N. Claire Jackson, and Jennifer Burke Reifman, join us for the second webinar in our 2025-2026 Webinar Series!

Since November 2022, the landscape around Generative AI, particularly in educational contexts, has evolved in a number of directions. Currently, many of our institutions are investing heavily in GenAI technologies and mandating AI literacy curricula; at the same time intense debates about the ethics and consequences of these products are challenging both the morality of their use and raising serious questions about their potential impact on student learning. Given this context, Writing Program and Writing Center Administrators may question how to respond ethically, efficiently, and responsibly to institutional mandates related to these technologies.

In this workshop, three new and untenured WPAs/WCDs will discuss how they have taken up these efforts. The presenters will discuss emerging understandings of what “AI Literacy” is, including McIntyre, Fernandes, and Sano-Franchini’s (2025) “critical digital cultural literacies”; Söken and Nygreen’s (2024) situating of AI literacy in a broader framework of critical media literacy; Thornley and Rosenberg’s (2024) bridging of AI literacy and information literacy; among others. Presenters will also consider Presenters will also consider how to balance the documented “learning loss” from the use of GenAI tools (Gerlich, 2025; Kosmyna et al., 2025) with the the imperative to teach AI literacy, and explore pathways for instructor and student agency that do not assume, as we’ve been told, that resistance is futile.

After engaging in emerging work in this area, we will describe each of our contexts where we have been mandated to integrate GenAI and must navigate doing so. We describe our efforts to meet the mandates by focusing on how GenAI integration may or may not align with course learning outcomes and course modalities at our institutions, considering issues of professional development and overall fit of GenAI products with already established curriculum. We then invite participants to discuss institutional mandates that may be impacting their own programs and consider how the information presented in this webinar might help them think through potential approaches. More specifically, we’ll provide a heuristic aimed at encouraging participants to examine their own programmatic outcomes and consider the extent to which AI literacy does/does not align with the existing outcomes and/or course modalities, discuss what it would mean to integrate AI literacy into these outcomes and courses, and develop materials for teaching AI literacy tied to their own outcomes. We will also provide a space for participants to strategize ways to respond critically to institutional hype while ensuring your continued place in the conversation.

Participants in this webinar will gain:

• Strategies for connecting learning outcomes with GenAI Literacy as a concept
• Approaches to responding critically to institutional hype
• Materials and assessments developed from the SLO for students
• Approaches for considering integration of GenAI across course modalities

Registration Information:

• This Webinar is free to GSOLE members. 
• Non-Members can register for $15.
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