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I am Professor of Digital Media and Head of the Digital Media Department at the Antoinette Westphal College of Media Arts & Design at Drexel University. I currently also serve as the Program Director of the Digital Media PhD degree program as well as the eSports undergraduate minor. Prior to my affiliation with Drexel I held academic teaching, research and management positions at Vienna University of Technology, Austria, at the Department of Computer Science at Arizona State University, at Danube University Krems, Austria, and the KPH Vienna/Krems, Austria, for which I served as President. My work focuses on theory and practice of the educational use of digital media, immersive audio, computer games, blockchain technology, and generative artificial intelligence.

Beyond the Tool: Why True AI Literacy is About Critical Thinking, Not Prompting

Michael G. Wagner, a technology educator with more than 30 years experience in higher education, contends that the nature of AI literacy is largely misunderstood within the education community. Ultimately, the goal of AI literacy should not be to make students better at using AI, but to empower them to be more discerning thinkers, more ethical citizens, and more self-aware human beings in a world where AI exists. Analyzing the relationship between artificial and human intelligence requires two components: understanding how LLMs work, and understanding how human cognition works. Wagner says we understand neither well enough to make informed judgments. The uncomfortable truth is that confident dismissal of AI’s intelligence often just reveals a deeper misunderstanding of our own.

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Subjects: AI, Communication Skills, Education
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