Empowering students through co-creation: Building ethical AI literacy for languages, culture and employability

Perez-Nieto, Nazaret, Silvestri, Angelo, Deronda, Francesca and Mathers, Hannah 2025. Empowering students through co-creation: Building ethical AI literacy for languages, culture and employability. Presented at: 4th International Congress on Innovation and Technology in Language Teaching (iTel2025), Universidade Aberta de Portugal (online), 06 November 2025.

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Abstract

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is reshaping the ways in which languages and cultures are taught, learned, and assessed in higher education. While its potential is significant, there remains an urgent need for frameworks that foreground ethical awareness, digital inclusion and student co-creation. This presentation showcases an innovative two-part student-led project that explores how AI can be embedded responsibly into academic and professional contexts, with a particular focus on employability and personalised learning. The first strand, an AI Ethics Resource Bank, maps and evaluates current AI tools for their pedagogical and professional relevance. It investigates how these technologies can enhance academic success and career readiness, while simultaneously providing students with a framework for responsible engagement. Findings will be presented as an open, evolving resource that is accessible, inclusive, and designed for long-term sustainability. The second strand, an AI Learning and Competency Module, develops a structured, multi-unit approach on how to apply AI resources to design both language and cultural modules. Guided by co-creation principles, students collaborate to identify, design, and test applications of AI across both language and cultural modules. This includes integrating AI into learning material, assessment design, as well as ensuring ethical, transparent and discipline-sensitive practice. The project also considers interdisciplinary applications of AI, highlighting how such competencies support both academic development and employability. By combining theoretical and practical dimensions, this paper will demonstrate the pedagogical value of embedding AI into University modules and the importance of co-creation, ethics, and accessibility. The paper also supports the idea that personalised, student-centred approaches not only foster autonomy and digital skills, but also ensure that AI integration relies on ethical, future-oriented, and inclusive approaches. Keywords: Artificial Intelligence, co-creation, ethics, employability, Higher Education

Item Type:	Conference or Workshop Item (Paper)
Status:	Unpublished
Schools:	Schools > Modern Languages
Subjects:	P Language and Literature > PB Modern European Languages
Last Modified:	06 Nov 2025 16:15
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/182163

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