Prompting Critical Thinkers

Using Library Frameworks to Teach AI Literacy as a Workforce Skill

Abstract

“Prompting Critical Thinkers” follows one librarian’s evolution of a library lesson on generative AI tools into an information literacy lesson grounded in the ACRL Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Education. The revised lesson focused on generative AI as an information source and blended definitions of AI literacy from academia and industry. This case study demonstrates how growing interest in AI skills can give librarians new opportunities to get into the classroom and teach students enduring information literacy skills.