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The AI Syllabus

This guide is designed to provide access to the concepts and resources comprising the AI Syllabus by Anne Kingsley and Emily Moss.

The AI Syllabus Teaching and Learning Guide

Purpose and Design

We've designed this guide to provide access to the resources and concepts that make up the AI Syllabus. 

The AI Syllabus is formatted primarily as an annotated bibliography in APA format. Source titles in the citations are hyperlinked for ease of access. 

Each section featured in the syllabus has its own tab and page within the guide and relevant to that area of focus, includes: 

  • 2 critical AI literacies 
  • multimedia resources 
  • brief synthesis and learning outcomes
  • activity/assignment ideas 
  • critical self-reflection exercise (not included on every page)

We hope this guide is useful for faculty and students.

If you use the AI Syllabus in your own teaching or learning and have any feedback to share on your experience, please feel free to contact us: 

  • Anne Kingsley, Dean of Educational Technology & Learning Resources - akingsley@dvc.edu 
  • Emily Moss, Teaching Librarian - emmoss@dvc.edu

Inspiration - Creating with AI

A white circuit hub on a white-washed wood background with illuminated black cords trailing out from the hub like a spider web.

Credit: ÍŊYAŊ IYÉ (TELLING ROCK), Suzanne Kite, Devin Ronneberg, 2019. 

From Kite's website: "As Ínyan Iyé speaks, listeners may respond to it by bending and moving its braids, affecting the sounds. This sculpture interrogates the relationships between human and non-human entities and intelligences. Through Oglala Lakota ontologies, even materials such as metals, rocks, and minerals can communicate of their own volition. By considering the 'hearing' and 'listening' capabilities of nonhuman entities, a method of engagement reliant upon mutual respect and responsibility becomes possible. Íŋyaŋ Iyé speaks, you respond to it by bending and moving its braids, effecting the sounds it makes. Íŋyaŋ Iyé listens to the changes in its own voice and generates a response in lights and sound."