Presentation Beyond Reading: Challenges and Concerns for Embracing Human-AI Collaboration in Literacy more

Literacy has rapidly expanded and radically transformed in the time of digital society. Language literacy should extend beyond reading to embrace human-AI collaboration as a design process of meaning-making across diverse forms. This presentation shares the research-based practice to implement human-AI collaboration in English literacy. Sixty-nine undergraduate students from one Teacher Education program participated in the mixed-methods study to develop a multimodal project in their teaching disciplines. The project adopted Thai Basic Core Curriculum Strands and Standards to design locally relevant teaching materials for the lesson design, teaching practice, and virtual poster exhibition. Given the collaboration among AI-generated responses, peers, and teacher-guided feedbacks, they created storyboards, verified AI suggestions, and edited changes. Results from the reading assessment and digital literacy inventory led to envision AI-mediated literacy for enhancing language learning and preparing real teaching. Students significantly improved both reading and digital literacy. They reflected the adaptation of AI technologies on the inventory and student narratives from user logs and feedbacks over four dimensions, namely agency and interactive dialogue, critical evaluation and accountability, multimodal and creative synthesis, and self-awareness and framing. Implications addressed challenges and concerns for leveraging human-AI classroom practices through literacy experiences with discipline connectivity in language teacher education.