Plenary Sessions
Beyond "Sounds Good": Building Skeptical AI Literacy by Inviting Students to Question AI Feedback
Tuesday, August 18 | 9:30 - 10:30 am
As AI systems grow more sophisticated, it’s harder to notice when they’re wrong. Students need practice questioning AI as they seek to define their own purpose and make their own judgments. How do we build that habit?
This plenary shares an approach that invites students to engage with AI writing feedback alongside human feedback. Drawing on the Peer & AI Review + Reflection (PAIRR) project, a collaboration centered at the University of California, Davis and funded by the California Education Learning Lab, Mills will show how strategically designed prompts, follow-up chat strategies, and reflective assignments help students practice evaluating AI suggestions against their own purposes, pushing back when they disagree, and using AI as a stimulus for their own thinking. When students engage critically with AI feedback, they’re building a habit that will serve them wherever AI shows up in their lives.
Anna Mills