AI Literacies in Practice Series

Cultural and Civic AI Literacies

July 23, 2026 | 12:00 PM EDT | 1 Hour

How AI Reflects Us and How We Put It to Work

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Speakers

Dr. Angela Gunder

CEO & Founder, Opened Culture

Dr. Cristi Ford

Chief Learning Officer, D2L

Dr. Robert MacAuslan

Vice President of Artificial Intelligence, Southern New Hampshire University

About This Webinar

Most people experience AI as something that happens to them. Cultural and Civic AI Literacies flip that script. They ask whether AI sees your community clearly, whether it carries the perspectives and histories that matter to the people using it, and what becomes possible when you stop being a passive consumer and start putting AI to work in service of something bigger than efficiency.

What You’ll Learn

The Mirror Isn’t Neutral

AI tools are built in specific cultural contexts, and they carry those contexts into everything they produce. Cultural AI literacies ask whose perspectives, histories, and ways of knowing show up in AI outputs, whose are missing, and what changes when learners and educators start noticing the difference. This session explores what it means to engage with AI as someone whose identity and community shape what the tool gets right and what it gets wrong.

From Understanding to Action

Recognizing how AI represents your community is one thing. Deciding what to do about it is another. Civic AI literacies move the conversation from awareness to contribution, asking how AI knowledge and skills can be used to foster engagement, empowerment, and societal progress in the communities that matter to you. This session explores what becomes possible when people stop being consumers of AI and start using it as a force for positive change.

The Constellation That Connects Identity to Impact

Cultural and Civic AI Literacies share a throughline: both ask you to look beyond the screen and into the world that AI is shaping. Understanding how AI reflects your community is the foundation. Putting AI to work in service of that community is the next step. This session traces the arc from representation to contribution and invites participants to explore where they are along it.