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AI Literacies in Practice Series

Communicative and Cognitive AI Literacies

October 27, 2026 | 10:00 AM EDT | 1 Hour

The Conversation That Changes How You Think


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Speakers

Dr. Angela Gunder

CEO & Founder, Opened Culture

Dr. Angela Gunder

CEO & Founder, Opened Culture

Angela Gunder, Ph.D., is the CEO and founder of Opened Culture, a pioneering collaboratory dedicated to empowering stakeholders across the educational ecosystem to advance academic innovation and cultures of openness. She is also an online instructor at The University of Arizona where she has been teaching in Brightspace for over a decade.

Dr. Cristi Ford

Chief Learning Officer

Dr. Cristi Ford

Chief Learning Officer

Dr. Cristi Ford serves as the Chief Learning Officer at D2L. She brings more than 20 years of cumulative experience in higher education, secondary education, project management, program evaluation, training and student services to her role. In this role, she offers thought leadership and direction to the academic affairs unit of the organization. Her previous roles have allowed her to have impact in education from secondary and higher education settings within North America and as part of the international landscape. Her reach has allowed her to focus on building online education in the US and in Africa.

In addition to her experience building new online learning programs and research related to online teaching and learning, Dr. Ford possesses significant experience in the design and delivery of integrated educational support, training and transition services for young adults and children with neurodevelopment disabilities.

Dr. Ford was selected by the Online Learning Consortium as the 2022 OLC Fellow (the highest professional distinction offered by the association). She is a tireless advocate for quality online education and has leveraged her passion and expertise in many realms in the education space. She is known for utilizing her leadership in extraordinary ways to help institutions build capacity to launch and expand online programming through effective faculty development, instructional design and pedagogical practices.

Dr. Ford holds a PhD in Educational Leadership from the University of Missouri-Columbia and undergraduate and graduate degrees in the field of Psychology from Hampton University and University of Baltimore, respectively.

Sean McMinn

Director of the Center for Education Innovation, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

Sean McMinn

Director of the Center for Education Innovation, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

Dr. Sean McMinn is the Director of the Center for Education Innovation at The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST). His role includes leading the development of digital education, including AI for education initiatives, at the university. Sean also currently sits on multiple international committees, including the AI and Education International Panel, Digital Education Council, and the Cyber-Physical Learning Alliance. He has won various awards for his work in digital education, including the 2024 Global MOOC and Online Education Alliance (GMA) Award for his work in AI Education, the 2016 School of Humanities and Social Science (SHSS) Teaching Excellence Award and the 2007 Teaching Innovation Award for his work with podcasts and education at HKUST.

About This Webinar

The earliest interactions most people had with AI looked like a transaction: type a prompt, get an answer, move on. But something has shifted. The conversation with AI is becoming a real conversation, one where context builds, ideas develop across exchanges, and the relationship between the person and the tool starts to reshape how both operate. This session explores what happens when communicating with AI stops being reactive and starts being relational, and what that shift reveals about how we think and learn.

What You’ll Learn

Beyond the Answerbot

Communicative AI literacies started with learning how to get useful outputs from a prompt. But the practice has evolved far beyond inputs and outputs. Today it looks like sustained dialogue, where tone, identity, context, and intention all shape what AI produces and what the person produces in return. This session explores what it means to engage with AI as a communicative partner rather than a search bar, and why that distinction matters for every educator in the room.

Thinking About Your Own Thinking

Cognitive AI literacies ask a question that most people never pause long enough to consider: how is working with AI changing the way I think? When learners and educators engage with AI over time, something shifts in how they approach problems, evaluate information, and reflect on their own reasoning. This session explores what becomes visible when people start paying attention to those shifts and using them intentionally.

Two Dimensions That Deepen Together

The richer your dialogue with AI becomes, the more it surfaces about your own thinking. And the more aware you become of how you think and learn, the more intentional your next conversation with AI can be. These two dimensions build on each other in ways that become clearer over time, and this session invites participants to trace that progression in their own experience.

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