Conclusion
Conclusion
The ACRL Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Education is open-ended enough for us to try new things in our teaching, explore new tools and new ways of helping students to understand the information in the world around them. These are just a few ways that we see how the Framework addresses ChatGPT and other generative AI tools. When we first were looking at this issue, we took a highlighter to the Framework document
and made several dozen connections, and we’re sure that’s not all. In looking at these tools through the lens of the Framework, we can see both the promise and the pitfalls. Ultimately, there must be instruction about these tools: how they were developed, the ethics surrounding their use, and the specificity of the ways they can both help and hurt students. While we are aware that it can seem burdensome to add “one more thing” onto the plate of librarians who provide information literacy instruction, we urge librarians to have discussions with their faculty partners to share the burden of instruction. We are also confident that instruction librarians will create lesson plans that teach about or use ChatGPT in library instruction and will share them with their peers at places like Project CORA, the Framework for Information Literacy Sandbox, and other lesson plan repositories.