Monday 13 July 2026
Speakers for this BALID Informal Literacy Discussion on AI literacies: Dr Vanessa Cui (Birmingham City University), Dr Louise Wheatcroft (Birmingham City University) & Dr Nguyen Thi Thu Trang (Ho Chi Minh City University).
Since the release of ChatGPT in 2022, educators across the globe have been grappling with the ongoing developments of Generative AI in education. These developments span across the core areas of assessment, pedagogy, teacher’s CPD, academic integrity and most importantly the meaning and purposes of education in an AI rich world. One of the concepts and practice has been developing along with AI in education is teacher’s AI literacy which can be viewed as teacher’s ability and competency in understanding, critically evaluating, and responsibly using AI technologies in education.
Between September 2024 and July 2026, the ‘Inclusive Use of AI in Education in Vietnam’ project has been working with high school educators across Vietnam to develop understandings and practices with educators about AI literacy in their context. Through an initial mixed-methods investigation, a programme of workshops and a series of teacher-led mini-projects at their schools, our project develops a context driven, teacher-centred framework of AI literacy that brings together teacher’s pedagogical literacy, digital literacy and the ongoing development of AI where teachers are positioned as non-specialists.
The project pays particular attention on teacher’s agency as pedagogical experts and how the ongoing CPD on teacher’s AI literacy needs to focus on recognising while teachers are not AI specialists, their approaches to AI in education is driven by pedagogical needs and intensions. As the project draws to a close, project team academic researchers from the UK and Vietnam intend to share emerging findings and recommendations from the project with educators and researchers to discuss their implications in different educational contexts.