Hammond Kicks Off Mountain Talk Education Miniseries
Feb. 12, 2026
Join Tom Hammond, an associate professor in the Teaching, Learning, and Technology, for the launch of a special Mountain Talk Education Miniseries on Thursday, February 26 at 7-7:30 p.m. on Zoom.
The title for Hammond's talk is AI Literacy Must Be a Critical Literacy: Why, How, and How Not to Do It. He says, "Artificial intelligence (AI) is not just another technology, rising to take its place among the other digital tools that teachers and students use every day. AI brings with it serious questions about ethics, epistemology, and the fundamental processes of education.
To use AI well — and to know when not to use AI — teachers and students need to understand AI, not just the nuts and bolts of how to use it.
Instead, AI literacy needs to be a critical literacy, allowing us to use it in an informed context: understanding of how it does (and doesn't) work, aware of the tradeoffs involved in its use, and respecting the essential role of the user."
This talk will illustrate approaches to teaching AI literacy that address these principles.
Register by Feb 25 at https://bit.ly/3MD02iI.
