“A Pedagogy of the Inevitable” by Ricky D’Andrea Crano has now been published in Critical AI at this link https://read.dukeupress.edu/critical-ai/article/doi/10.1215/2834703X-12095991/406208/A-Pedagogy-of-the-Inevitable; an extract is pasted in below. If your institution lacks access to Critical AI please encourage them to subscribe. If you are an independent scholar please write to criticalai@sas.rutgers.edu.
EXCTRACT:
Over the last couple of years, two altogether incompatible discourses of “AI literacy” have emerged. One seeks just enough literacy to support a smooth, perhaps even joyful, integration with new technologies; the other seeks the critical literacies to interrogate—and when necessary refuse—the social, political, and planetary costs of such integration. While the latter discourse engages the former often and with in-depth concern, the former discourse depends for its success on serene ignorance of the latter. Published in spring 2024, José Antonio Bowen and C. Edward Watson’s Teaching with AI: A Practical Guide to a New Era of Human Learning arrived just in time to vindicate the “just-enough” AI literacy program in the face of surging unease around generative AI in the classroom (see, e.g., Losh 2024). At many institutions across the country, college administrators—already beset by constricting budgets and the political fallout from campus protests—seized on generative AI’s rhetoric…