Literacy
The ability to understand, analyze, and evaluate messages from the news, advertisements, television, social platforms, etc
What is Media Literacy
A group of people with shared interests, values, or background. Can be social, religious, ethnic, geographical, interest-based, professional.
What is a Community
Skimming, reading the abstract, reading the introduction and conclusion, using CTRL+F, taking notes
What are Reading Strategies
A new type of AI technology that was introduced when ChatGPT came out. It often uses something called Machine Learning
What is Generative AI
What is drafting, outlining, prewriting, brainstorming, research, editing, revising, or assessment.
A set of abilities requiring individuals to “recognize when [something] is needed and have the ability to locate, evaluate, and use [it] effectively..."
What is Information Literacy
The ways that people use reading, writing, and language in their communities to communicate with each other, learn, and build a sense of belonging within the community
What is Community Literacies or Literacy Practices
Making short notes directly in a book or on a text
What are Annotations
An AI generated image that looks real
Deepfake
Processes and activities that writers use to get information about their writing from readers for the purpose of understanding readers' experiences and using ideas from readers to improve writing
The confident and critical use of a full range of technologies for information, communication and basic problem-solving in all aspects of life
What is Digital Literacy
An integrated pattern of knowledge, beliefs, values, attitudes, and behaviors shared by a group of people.
What is Culture
Analyzing credibility, relevance, timeliness, ojectivity, and rhetorical strategies of research.
Being upfront about AI use in a project or assignment, including citing the tool and explaining how it was used.
A revision strategy used to determine how well a piece of writing adheres to the assignment requirements
What is Assessment or Self-Assessment
The ability to analyze texts in relation to contexts, relationships of language and power, and questioning perspectives.
What is Critical Literacy
An individual's sense of belonging to one or more cultural groups
What is Cultural Identity
A way to organize research and plan for how it will be used in an essay or project. Also evaluates credibility.
A type of Generative AI that uses the same type of technology as predictive text to generate human-like responses and conversational chats.
What are Large Language Models (LLM)
The quotation sandwich; the standard 5 paragraph essay; the order of words in a sentence; introduction, body, and conclusion; topic sentences
What is Structure
The specialized knowledge and skills that experienced learners and experts have within a field of study
What is Disciplinary Literacy
A method of communication through which culture is developed, maintained, changed, and passed on to new generations. Can be oral, signed, or written.
What is Language or Discourse
Analyzing Context, Audience, Purpose, and Genre for reading and writing.
What is Adapting to a Literacy Situation
Two features of text that can help determine if something is AI written or human written. Difficulty in predicting the next word in the text. Variety in sentence length and structure.
What is Perplexity and Burstiness
A type of research that involves collecting data yourself and forming original conclusions
What is Primary Research