This presentation is part of a 2025 speaker series, Critical AI Literacy in Information Work, supported by the AI Literacy Center at Oregon State University. This presentation was supported by the OSU Libraries Gray Family Fund.
In this interactive session, participants will reflect on their own thoughts, attitudes and practices in relation to AI. We will explore different dimensions of critical AI literacies, and the importance of beginning with questioning the inequalities, biases and ethical concerns. We will also discuss ways we might approach our thinking about AI in education from a lens of compassionate learning design. Participants will have opportunities to explore concrete learning activities, as well as design their own activities for their own context based on some models to help prioritize care and equity as we choose our response to AI.This session is for everyone along the spectrum of refusing AI, to embracing AI, and more complex positions in between.
Maha Bali is Professor of Practice at the Center for Learning and Teaching at the American University in Cairo. She has a PhD in Education from the University of Sheffield, UK. She is co-founder of
virtuallyconnecting.org (a grassroots movement that challenges academic gatekeeping at conferences) and co-facilitator of Equity Unbound (an equity-focused, open, connected intercultural learning curriculum, which has also branched into academic community activities Continuity with Care, Socially Just Academia, a collaboration with OneHE: Community-building Resources and MYFest, an innovative 3-month professional learning journey. She writes and speaks frequently about social justice, critical pedagogy, and open and online education. She blogs regularly at
https://blog.mahabali.me and tweets @bali_maha.
