Teaching AI Fluency

Anthropic

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                ## What you'll learn

Estimated time: 40 minutes

By the end of this lesson you'll be able to:

Analyze AI's specific impacts on curriculum, pedagogy, and assessment in your field
Create a position paper articulating your perspective on AI's role in your discipline

AI's impact and your discipline

This video examines how AI impacts different disciplines in unique ways across curriculum, pedagogy, and assessment. It emphasizes that your disciplinary expertise—understanding your field's core values, methods, and ways of thinking—is essential for navigating these disruptions. The video explores three key questions: What gets automated in your field? Where does human-AI partnership add the most value? How do we prepare students to manage and remain accountable for AI systems in their future careers? It acknowledges that disruption isn't uniform—perhaps your curriculum stays stable while assessments transform, or your pedagogy evolves while core content remains constant. The video provides frameworks for analyzing these impacts, emphasizing that some disruptions are opportunities to leverage while others are problems to solve, and your expertise determines which is which.

Key takeaways

AI impacts curriculum, pedagogy, and assessment differently across disciplines
Your disciplinary, pedagogical, and assessment expertise are the foundation for meaningful AI integration
Understanding what gets automated, where partnership adds value, and how to maintain accountability is crucial
Impact and disruption patterns vary—some areas transform while others remain stable
AI Fluency amplifies rather than replaces disciplinary expertise

Exercises

This exercise helps you systematically analyze AI's impact on your discipline and articulate your position. The timing is just a reference - take your time and make your conversations meaningful.

Step 1: Exploring AI's Impact on Your Curriculum (10 minutes)

Start a conversation with Claude (or continue from previous lessons):

Setting up the conversation:

Provide the AI with the transcripts from this course
Share your teaching and disciplinary context and explain you're analyzing AI's impact on your specific discipline
Tell the AI you'll be creating a position paper that articulates your perspective on these changes

Exploring curriculum disruption:

Explore with the AI which routine tasks in your field AI currently automates or may likely automate soon
Discuss how these automations may change which foundational concepts become more or less important for students
Work through specific examples of when students ask "Why learn XYZ when AI can do it?" and develop compelling, discipline-specific answers
Identify which human skills become even more crucial as AI handles routine work
Consider where human-AI collaboration could add the most value in your field
Discuss what new competencies students need to work effectively with AI in your discipline

Step 2: Examining Pedagogical Transformation (10 minutes)

Continue your analysis focusing on teaching methods:

Identifying enhancement opportunities:

Explore with the AI specific ways AI could enable better learning experiences in your field
Discuss pedagogical possibilities that seemed impossible before AI (e.g. personalized tutoring, immediate feedback, interactive simulations)
Distinguish between where AI genuinely helps students learn versus just making things easier/faster
Consider how AI might help address persistent challenges in teaching your subject

Assessing risks and maintaining rigor:

Work with the AI to identify where AI might short-circuit genuine learning in your discipline
Discuss which pedagogical approaches should be avoided or modified with AI's presence
Explore how to maintain academic rigor when AI can complete many traditional assignments
Consider which learning experiences must remain human-centered to preserve their value
Plan how to help students use AI as a learning tool rather than a learning substitute

Step 3: Reimagining Assessment Strategies (10 minutes)

Focus on the assessment challenges and opportunities:

Designing authentic assessment in the AI age:

Discuss with the AI what demonstrates genuine understanding in your field when students have AI access
Explore how to assess process, growth, and critical thinking alongside final products
Consider what new forms of assessment become possible with AI
Identify ways to value creativity, judgment, and synthesis in assessment

Maintaining integrity while embracing innovation:

Work with the AI to brainstorm assessments that can't be shortcut with AI
Explore where AI collaboration might actually enhance demonstration of mastery
Discuss how to distinguish between appropriate and inappropriate AI use in your field
Consider how to design assessments that encourage responsible AI use while demonstrating individual understanding

Step 4: Synthesizing Your Position (10 minutes)

Create your position paper:

Developing your stance:

Ask the AI to help you synthesize your discussion into a coherent position paper
Include your perspective on curriculum evolution, pedagogical transformation, and assessment innovation
Articulate clear principles for how AI should and shouldn't be used in your discipline
Add specific examples and rationales that will resonate with your colleagues

What's next

In the next lesson, we'll focus on applying your disciplinary knowledge to make the AI Fluency Framework specific to your field. You'll work with colleagues to develop discipline-specific applications of the 4Ds.

Feedback

As you progress through the course, we'd love to hear from you about how you are using concepts from the course in your life, work, or classes and any feedback you may have. Share your feedback here.

Acknowledgments and license

Copyright 2025 Rick Dakan, Joseph Feller, and Anthropic. Released under the CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 license. This course is based on The AI Fluency Framework by Dakan and Feller.Supported in part by the Higher Education Authority, Ireland, through the National Forum for the Enhancement of Teaching and Learning.

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