Learning with ChatGPT: An Adult Educator’s Journey of Building Critical AI Literacy

Abstract

Critical AI literacy is an active area of scientific research and current scholarship on the integration of generative AI technologies in language education. However, there is a dearth of research into Canadian adult educators’ perceptions of and experiences with critical AI literacy development from an autoethnographic perspective. To address this research lacuna, the author conducted a narrative study of his college English for academic purposes classes over three academic semesters in 2024 and 2025. The data, generated from the researcher’s teacher learning journal and regular interactions with ChatGPT as a reflective partner, highlighted three main research results and implications for pedagogical practices. First, developing adult educators AI literacy is a form of teacher professional learning, which can position the learners as class collaborators and knowledge co-creators. Next, adapting teaching approaches to sustain more human-focused learning experiences involves three levels of complexities: between the educator and the chatbot, the learners’ interactions with AI technologies, and the teacher-learner relationship as one of partnership and exploration. Last, to engage the students as active agents in the process of learning, adult educators should craft sound pedagogical approaches to enhance language teaching, stimulate learner participation, and create human-focused teaching interventions in AI-enhanced higher education settings.

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