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AI Literacy in the Age of ChatGPT for Instructors: Guide for instructors

A guide for instructors


This guide focuses on generative AI.

We cover only AI that can generate text, images, video, music, or speech. Examples: ChatGPT, Microsoft Copilot, Gemini, Perplexity, Adobe Firefly, Midjourney, Eleven Labs, and more.

Last updated on May 27, 2025.

We aim to keep this guide up to date. But since new developments are happening so quickly, it's possible this may be out of date when you read it.

New to generative AI?


If you are new to the practice of using generative AI tools like ChatGPT, these short videos provide a useful introduction.

Practical AI for Instructors and Students (10 to 12 minutes each)
Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania

What is AI literacy?


AI literacy is the ability to:

  • critically evaluate AI technologies
  • communicate and collaborate effectively with AI
  • use AI as a tool, online, at home, and in the workplace.

From a 2020 paper, by Long and Magerko, who synthesized a variety of interdisciplinary literature into a set of core competencies.

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This guide is adapted by one created by librarians from the University of Arizona.

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