AI literacy talk and workshop with Lori Riva and Emilie Brancato.

Friday, February 2, 2024 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm EST (GMT -05:00)
Poster for talk by Lori Riva and Emilie Brancato about about "critical AI literacy", on February 2 2024 at 12 p.m. in ECH 1219.  Background of poster is an AI generated image by Bing Copilot showing multicoloured lines of colour forming a logarithmic spiral.

Lori Riva and Emilie Brancato will give a presentation and workshop about "critical AI literacy", dealing with creativity and teaching and the potential dynamics involving oppression, marginalized students and accessibility issues. They are working on developing a 'co-creative' process involving faculty, staff and students.

Emilie Brancato is Manager, English Language Learning, at OCAD University, where she oversees pre-entry programs (English for Art and Design), as well as co-curricular student programming and faculty professional learning and educational research related to inclusive teaching, language learning, Academic Integrity and Generative AI. Current research interests include decolonized and anti-racist approaches to academic integrity and Generative AI, translingual writing and language teaching pedagogies and raciolinguistics.

Lori Riva is Assistant Professor, Faculty of Arts and Science, at OCADU University, with a teaching focus in contemporary architecture, design, and urbanism and Environmental Design thesis studio. Since 2015, she has been teaching and coordinating OCADU’s first-year art history survey course. In September, she will be co-leading the emerging community of practice on Generative AI, creative practice and teaching/learning. As part of her commitment toward rethinking design approaches and paradigms in her teaching, her current work investigates practices of care in the design of public spaces.