AI Literacy Toolkit

This workshop slot is intentionally left open and will be shaped by student interests as the semester develops. By this point in the course, you will have used NotebookLM, Midjourney, and Google VEO, and you will have encountered a range of other AI tools in your own research. This session is your opportunity to bring a tool, a question, or a problem to the group for collective exploration.

Possible directions include: testing AI translation tools on Arabic, Turkish, or Farsi texts; evaluating AI-powered transcription services for oral history interviews; experimenting with AI coding assistants for digital humanities projects; or developing a critical evaluation rubric for AI tools in your discipline. The format will depend on what the group decides — it could be a structured comparison of tools, a collaborative troubleshooting session, or a design exercise in which we imagine what AI tools built for our communities (rather than for Silicon Valley) might look like.

The goal is to move from critique to practice: not just identifying what is wrong with existing AI tools but articulating what better tools would look like and for whom they would be built.