AI and Metaliteracy
Empowering Learners for the Generative Revolution
Thomas P Mackey editor Nicola Marae Allain editor
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Publishing:18th Feb '27
£43.99
This title is due to be published on 18th February, and will be despatched as soon as possible.
Empower learners to engage with AI through the metaliteracy framework, developing ethical producers of generative content.
As the AI revolution unfolds, learners must develop new ways of engaging with technologies that shape how information is created, shared, and understood. This book explores how individuals can become ethical knowledge producers in AI-mediated environments. Featuring innovative theories and inspiring case studies, it demonstrates how metaliteracy empowers learners to approach AI with critical awareness, reflection, and responsibility.
Metaliteracy prepares learners to participate actively in evolving information environments. Within this framework, individuals take on a range of dynamic roles—including author, collaborator, researcher, and teacher—as they create and share knowledge. Metaliterate learners engage with generative AI tools to produce artistic, literary, scientific, and scholarly forms of text, image, and video. These activities take place across learning contexts that range from libraries and digital media arts to virtual exchange, digital workspaces, and emerging environments such as the metaverse.
The chapters present innovative and adaptable approaches for integrating AI and metaliteracy across disciplines and educational contexts. Drawing on the work of researchers and practitioners from around the world, the volume highlights how educators are reimagining teaching and learning to prepare learners for responsible participation in AI-mediated knowledge environments.
"The volume, AI and Metaliteracy: Empowering Learners for the Generative Revolution, offers a thoughtful account of how education might respond to the growing use of generative AI. The book’s strength lies in connecting critical thinking with students’ reflection on their own role in producing knowledge. Significantly, it positions learners as active, reflective participants who engage critically with the world around them. Its collection of theoretically grounded chapters offers internationally relevant and transferable approaches and practices, making this a valuable resource for educators and researchers working in increasingly AI-mediated educational contexts." -- Jako Olivier, Adviser: High Education, Commonwealth of Learning, Vancouver, Canada
A timely contribution, this book shows how metaliteracy can be taught in different learning spaces, including the metaverse. The authors provide a variety of perspectives on AI and illuminate different national and disciplinary contexts. They also present an interesting array of frameworks that educators can apply in their own classrooms (virtual or physical), with step-by-step examples. -- Sheila Webber, Head of the Libraries and Information Society Research Group, School of Information, Journalism & Communication, Sheffield University, UK
AI and Metaliteracy is a timely and necessary contribution for educators navigating the generative AI era. Metaliteracy has long offered a vital framework for teaching multiple literacies, grounded in critical thinking and evaluation, and an understanding of literacy’s broader social power. This volume brings that framework into urgent conversation with AI. It will be an important resource for my own teaching and for students learning to question, assess, and engage AI with confidence and care. -- Dr. Nicole A. Cooke, Augusta Baker Endowed Chair and Professor, University of South Carolina, USA
A rich, timely, well researched, and deeply thoughtful collection. This book offers educators an interdisciplinary wealth of ways to rethink AI and learning through metaliteracy. -- Bryan Alexander, Senior Scholar, Georgetown University, USA
ISBN: 9798216195610
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414 pages