A collaborative panel featuring Drs. Nicola Marae Allain, Thomas P. Mackey, and Eugenio Solis d Ovando (pictured to the right with SUNY Empire colleague Dr. Rosilyn Sanders) presented at the AAC&U Conference on AI and Higher Education in Atlanta, Georgia. Their presentation, entitled “AI and Metaliteracy: A Framework for Ethical Engagement, Authorship, and Agency,” took place on October 29, 2026.

The panel highlighted two projects that apply metaliteracy to teaching and learning with generative AI. The AI & Metaliteracy Open Educational Resources (OER) Toolkit, supported by a SUNY Innovative Instruction Technology Grant (IITG), provides adaptable assignments, reflective learning activities, and rubrics.

AI avatar videos created by Eugenio Solis de Ovando opened and closed the session. Solis de Ovando also demonstrated how he creates an avatar, providing a practical example for the discussion of ethical engagement, authorship, and agency.

Later in the session, participants worked in small groups and were encouraged to consider how they might revise one of their own learning activities using metaliteracy. They explored how learner roles such as producer, collaborator, researcher, and teacher could inform what students create, how they work with others, and how they reflect on their decisions about AI use.

Viewers are welcome to use or adapt any part of the presentation for their own workshops and learning activities. To try the small-group exercise on your own, choose a learning activity you already use, select a metaliterate learner role, and consider how that role could guide one change to the activity.

The panel’s discussion drew on the forthcoming Bloomsbury volume AI and Metaliteracy: Empowering Learners for the Generative Revolution, edited by Nicola Marae Allain and Thomas P. Mackey, with a Foreword by Trudi E. Jacobson. The presenters also discussed the development of AI Learning with Metaliteracy, a forthcoming Coursera course to be launched in January 2027.