Constructing the "I" in Artificial Intelligence: Perceptions of Teaching with Chat GPT in Relation to Cultural Identity

FAIN: DOC-299602-24

California State University, Dominguez Hills Foundation (Carson, CA 90747-0001)
Cristina Stephany (Project Director: October 2023 to April 2024)
Mike Karlin (Project Director: April 2024 to present) ?Alohilani Okamura (Co Project Director: June 2024 to present)

An ethnographic study of beginning teachers in Los Angeles and Hawai’i and their understanding of ChatGPT’s influence on teaching in culturally and linguistically diverse classrooms. 

The aim of this project is to understand the implications and interactions of generative artificial intelligence (AI) upon preservice teachers’ identities and practices within the two culturally and linguistically diverse contexts of Los Angeles and Hawai‘i. Preservice or beginning teachers will be recruited to engage with Chat GPT through an interactive module. Participants’ responses to module prompts and interview questions will be analyzed to examine how preservice teachers make meaning of teaching with Chat GPT. Thick, contextualized description may surface tensions experienced by preservice teachers from diverse backgrounds, when positioning ChatGPT as a cultural versus neutral educational tool. Outcomes from this project have the potential to inform education communities of more culturally sustaining, equitable, and just ways to utilize ChatGPT in classrooms.