Announcing: AI Literacy Education Program – sign up for AI workshops today!

Generative artificial intelligence (AI) continues to emerge as an extensive and rapidly evolving technology in education and society at large. To help prepare the SF State community for an ever-changing technology environment, Academic Technology (AT), the Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning (CEETL), and Information Technology Services (ITS) collaborated to develop the AI Literacy Education Program. This comprehensive training program instills essential competencies for effective and responsible engagement with generative AI, both in personal and professional contexts. This includes the ability to understand, use, evaluate, and ethically navigate generative AI to enhance human thought and work. 

The curriculum consists of two core prerequisite courses addressing effective prompting strategies for practical applications with chatbots and the critical analysis of generative AI and its outputs. The program also includes several elective offerings that cover specialized AI tools and role-specific AI best practices for faculty, staff, and administrators. In addition to these synchronous courses, participants receive access to an online Canvas course site containing supplemental learning materials, AI resources, and assessments to measure learning. Through this program, SF State community members cultivate substantive, transferable AI knowledge and skills to employ in their current work and beyond.

Participants who successfully complete all of the following requirements will receive a digital badge to demonstrate AI literacy:

• Attend and actively participate in both prerequisite courses 
• Attend and actively participate in at least one elective course 
• Pass all pre-course assessments in the Canvas course site
• Pass a cumulative final assessment in the Canvas course site

To learn more, and register for workshops, visit the campus response to AI website (ai.sfsu.edu) "Start Your AI Journey" page. Workshops are also promoted individually on the AI site Events listing, CampusMemo, the University Calendar, and respective departmental events pages.