The Li brary Innovation Lab welcomes you to JOIN U S ONLINE\, Thursday August 20th\, f rom 1-2pm ET to welcome Dr. Nicholas Rabb for their LILtalk on Lear ning First: A Framework and Practice to Protect Learning in the Age of AI.< /i>

As AI has dramatically shifte d the educational landscape\, instructors have been left to adapt to AI. Em erging research suggests that AI use presents many challenges to learning. But largely\, educational institutions have not supported training instruct ors and students in how to ensure strong learning given this radical shift in information access\, rather focusing on "AI literacy" as how to skillful ly prompt AI\, encouraging its use.

In this talk\, we re-center learning an d criticality as the main skills students need in this emerging age of AI. While these skills have always been crucial\, the crisis created by AI pres ents new challenges\, as well as an opportunity to motivate students to lea rn deeply and critically the as technology is poised to manipulate and desk ill them. Our emerging work presents a framework for learning in the age of AI\, built on three pillars: (1) prioritizing critical thinking skills and student motivation to learn\, (2) adopting correct mental models of AI\, a nd (3) making principled decisions regarding when AI should and should not be used. We will additionally share our plans to operationalize this framew ork through institutional change efforts aimed at creating cultures and pra ctices of criticality in the age of AI.

Dr. Nicholas Rabb (he/him) is a postdoctoral researcher at California S tate University\, Los Angeles\, researching asset-based pedagogy\, AI in ed ucation\, and methods of institutional change in higher education. He compl eted his PhD at Tufts University studying misinformation\, surveillance\, a nd sociotechnical data science ethics.

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