Kick-off Session: Finding Your Constellation: An Introduction to AI Literacies Unlocked

Many of the conversations about AI in education center on a narrow set of questions: How does AI work? Is it helping or harming? How do I write a better prompt? These are important starting points, but after three years of global research across six continents, into classrooms, conference rooms, and conversations with practitioners navigating AI from every angle, research is showing us something far more expansive. Groupings of AI literacies referred to as “constellations” are getting more complex and more intentional. Educators are moving from transactional prompting toward genuinely dialogic engagement shaped by identity, positionality, and purpose. In addition, dimensions of AI literacies are revealing themselves as something we both use when we engage with AI and gain in the process of doing so, which means developing AI literacies is not a prerequisite to engaging with AI meaningfully. The two happen together, in the doing.

In this interactive session, Angela Gunder and Josh Herron introduce the Dimensions of AI Literacies, their taxonomy grounded in their longitudinal global research commissioned by UNESCO IITE across six continents. Participants will explore the eight dimensions of AI literacies, experience how they appear in patterned groupings called constellations, and begin identifying which dimensions are already alive in their own teaching and leadership practice. The session also serves as the launchpad into AI Literacies Unlocked, a free, self-paced course where participants will deepen their understanding of the eight interconnected AI literacies dimensions across six modules, culminating in the development of a case example grounded in their own discipline and institutional context.

By the end of this session, participants will be able to:

• Describe the eight dimensions of AI literacies and explain why we say literacies in the plural
• Explain how each dimension functions as both something you use and something you gain through engagement with AI
• Identify constellations of AI literacies already present in their own teaching and leadership practice
• Articulate a personal entry point into the AI Literacies Unlocked course

Speaker Biographies:

Angela Gunder, Ph.D.
Angela Gunder is the founder and CEO of Opened Culture, a global collaboratory and strategic consultancy advancing academic innovation, digital learning, and responsible approaches to emerging technology. She is the co-creator of the Dimensions of AI Literacies taxonomy, a field-defining contribution shaping how educators, institutions, and communities build AI skillsets and mindsets with intentionality and care.

Josh Herron, Ph.D.
Josh Herron is an interdisciplinary practitioner-scholar whose work bridges AI literacies, workforce development, and digital learning across higher education and industry. He is a co-creator of the Dimensions of AI Literacies taxonomy, contributing both its theoretical grounding in literacy studies and its practical application to institutional and organizational contexts. His scholarly foundation in electracy, multimodal composition, and post-pedagogy brings a perspective rooted in how people make meaning with emerging technologies, not just how they use them.
 

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