This session will look at critical artificial intelligence literacy and how to integrate it into media literacy projects for different audiences. AI literacy can be understood as the capacity to understand, use and evaluate AI technology, its uses and implications.
Our trainers will present research done into what teachers need to know about AI literacy, and how to help those with low digital skills develop their AI literacy competences.
We will discuss questions such as:
What do people (children, adults) need to know and understand about how algorithms and artificial intelligence works? What skills do they need?
Given the complexity and inaccessibility of these technologies, how much can we actually expect the public to understand?
How can those teaching AI literacy keep up with seemingly constant developments in the AI landscape and a stream of new products and tools?
Target audience
The training session is open to media and digital literacy practitioners and experts interested in including AI literacy in their work.
Deadline for applications
10 March 2025, 13:00 CET.
Applications are now closed
Meet your Trainers
I am a research and evaluation expert, with experience across a range of areas of social and health inequalities, and PhD in public health. I am the Research & Evaluation Manager for Good Things Foundation, a charity working to fix the digital divide in the UK. My role involves measuring the difference our work makes to people’s digital access, skills and confidence, and undertaking research to explore the barriers and facilitators to increasing digital inclusion.
Dr Kari Kivinen has led the Finnish NGO Faktabaari EDU project since 20217 and has edited, among others, the Digital Information Literacy Guide (2022), the Guide to Artificial Intelligence (2024) and the AI Guide for Teachers (January 2025). He is a member of several expert groups, such as the DG EAC Digital Education Content (DEC) Expert Group and the Tackling Disinformation and Promoting Digital Literacy Expert Group.
Deputy director of the DCU Institute for Media, Democracy, and Society; coordinator of EDMO Ireland; and co-chair of Media Literacy Ireland.