Unauthorized Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) use first entered my classroom in April 2023, mere months after the launch of ChatGPT. Since then I have been thinking deeply about how my literacy pedagogy needs to shift in response to the biggest revolution in communications technology since the Internet, and how to prepare my students for a GenAI-saturated future. This session will describe how I’ve begun tinkering with my critical media literacy lessons to incorporate foundational GenAI skills and foster critical thinking about this technology, how I’ve begun honouring my students’ request to be taught how to use GenAI as an organization/learning/reading/research/writing assistant, and how I’ve shifted my A&E practises to I free myself from the whack-a-mole approach to policing unauthorized GenAI use that is burning teachers out.

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Míchílín is an Adolescent Literacy Specialist; English/Media/ESL, Indigenous Studies, Social Studies, and Special Education Teacher at the Toronto District School Board; and a Director of the Association for Media Literacy. A Master’s student in the Social Justice Education Department at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE), University of Toronto, her teaching and research interests are at the intersection of critical digital multiliteracies, citizenship, technology and social and environmental justice.