A Study on What it Means to Teach Literacy in the Digital and AI Age

Abstract

Generational conflicts and controversies surrounding literacy continue to arise. This paper aims to diagnose the problem of literacy in the digital and AI era, which has entered an irreversible phase, and to emphasize the need for book reviewing education as one of the ways to overcome this issue. To this end, we first critically examine the fact that ‘eye-byte’ is becoming the new norm as print media has been transformed into digital media. In addition, we explore how recently emerged conversational AI services operate in a way that is far from the academic writing system. ChatGPT, which is based on a large-scale language model, is not only exposed to the problem of “hallucination,” where false information is answered plausibly, but also does not disclose the source of the results, even when verification is required. To overcome these problems, we tried to reconsider the academic process and the value of literacy education by focusing on the case of book review writing education.