Hairenik Aramayo
Doctoral research fellow at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology
I have an undergraduate diploma in Linguistics from the University of Buenos Aires and a Master's Degree in Applied Linguistics from the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. For over three years, I have worked in educational linguistics and writing studies with focus on teacher training in literacy education for higher education professors. My research interests focus on the impact of AI-innovations on literacy practices. I work from a sociocultural approach grounded in critical pedagogy. I have experience designing and conducting qualitative and ethnographically oriented research. I attended various international knowledge exchange spaces, such as the 2023 Dartmouth Summer Seminar on Composition Research.
Tell us about your project!
This project will analyze and contrast how individuals from different educational levels and expertise areas approach and read texts from different sources (including Chat-GPT) on environmental topics to assess the sources’ impact on participants’ environmental knowledge and reported beliefs. We will use a mixed-methods approach combining an information-seeking task (quantitative stage) and screen captured reading tasks combined with audio-recorded, concurrent talk-around-text (Tuck, 2023) (qualitative stage). We aim to contribute to broader understanding of the impact of the emergence of AI-powered technologies like Chat GPT on reading – a key learning process –. Further, we outline the implications of GAI on critical literacy teaching practices, with an emphasis on scaling toward teaching younger students critical AI literacy to evaluate and read digital sources.
“We aim to contribute to broader understanding of the impact of the emergence of AI-powered technologies like Chat GPT on reading.”
— Aramayo on her research project “Critical Digital Literacy Skills for the (Mis)Information Society: How Environmental Experts and Novices Read AI and Human-Written Texts”