Kenny Easwaran

Soc Sci 19: AI Literacy

AI Literacy

Current meeting activity

(All meetings: pre-meeting, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10)

(All modules: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, and the assigned fictions)

(All assignments: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, and the final project)

Lecture videos on YouTube (all but 10.2, which was out of date within days)

Syllabus (as posted in Canvas)

Artifacts I’ve made (with the help of Claude) for the class:

Structure of the class

The ten modules were the asynchronous half of the class, and lived in Canvas; the meeting pages above were the activity for each Zoom meeting. What follows is the Canvas home page as students saw it.

Links to the ten modules: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Assigned fictions

Activity link for Zoom meetings

Zoom meeting link (Zoom link removed) (both for class meetings, Tuesday/Thursday at 11 am, or to talk to me beforehand at 10 am, or another time as arranged)

Assignment spreadsheet (link removed)

To-do before the first meeting on Tuesday, June 23:

For each module, do all the video quizzes before the meeting, then come to the meeting on Zoom on Tuesday/Thursday at 11 am.

Zoom meetings will nearly all be small group activities in breakout rooms. Activity link.

You should be prepared to have your camera on and microphone on. (You will use a virtual background, so no one can see if your room is messy.) If you can’t do this one week, let me know in advance. If you can’t do this regularly, then you should take the class next year, when it will be in-person.

The evening after each meeting, you will need to turn in a written assignment, and then by the next meeting, give feedback on other students’ written assignments.

There is a final project (which could be an 8-12 minute presentation, a computer game, AI-generated video, or some other creative work that takes about 10 minutes to interact with). This is due by Monday, July 27 and you will be assigned to give feedback on three others by Wednesday, July 29. This will be about a work of fiction that you will pick at the beginning and read or watch in the second module.

I recommend going to the page for each module (from links above, or below) to find the assignments - these pages include links to versions of the videos without quizzes, that you can skip ahead and back in if you want to review (or if you want a hint while doing the quiz). These pages also have bonus links for additional resources you might find interesting, if you want to learn more about any topic.

Schedule

The date listed is the date of the Zoom meeting, and video quizzes should be completed before then. Written assignments are due on Friday, two days later, and comments on others are due by the following Monday.

You can get half credit for late assignments.

In each video quiz, if you get a question wrong, you can re-do the quiz - but you first have to finish watching through all of it, then hit “submit”, and then reload the assignment, and start again from the beginning.

I can grant an excuse for missing a Zoom meeting, or extensions on any video quizzes or written assignments, if you let me know at least 24 hours in advance that there is some time-sensitive activity that will interfere (e.g., you have to take your uncle to the airport, your best friend’s poetry recitation is on Tuesday at 11, your lab is doing field research all week); if you don’t let me know in advance, I will only grant credit or extensions if it’s an official university-excused reason (e.g. medical with a doctor’s note).