Critical AI Literacy Institute

About the Institute

The Critical AI Literacy Institute (CALI) is a response to the rapid proliferation of generative artificial intelligence tools since 2022. Funded by a three-year grant from Google.org and designed by the CUNY Graduate Center’s Teaching and Learning Center, the institute will bring together dozens of faculty from a variety of disciplines to consider the potential risks and benefits of generative AI for teaching and learning within their particular areas of study.

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How We’ll Work

Selected CUNY faculty and staff will work together over time to distill emergent scholarship about generative AI into pedagogical approaches that engage the core methods, skills, and epistemological foundations of their disciplines. They will develop, test, and refine assignments, lessons, and course units within their own classes, and produce and openly share artifacts from the experience that will help other faculty and academic programs evaluate and respond to the impact of generative AI on desired student learning outcomes, grading and assessment, academic integrity, resource use and allocation, and other elements of the instructional context.

This community of practice will work intentionally, methodically, reflectively, iteratively, and with care to deepen our collective understanding of how generative AI is impacting the core work we do as scholars and educators.

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Who We Are

The Teaching and Learning Center supports CUNY Graduate Center students as they become and grow as college teachers, and also works with CUNY faculty and staff on a range of programming related to inclusive and reflexive classroom practices and critical approaches to teaching and learning with technology. The TLC has led or collaborated on a number of institutes in recent years, including the STEM Pedagogy Institute, the Teach@CUNY Summer Institute, and the Open Education Publishing Institute.