{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Margin of Thought with Priten","title":"Is AI Literacy the New Professional Credential? - Anna Zendall","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":1657,"description":"In this episode, Priten speaks with Anna Zendell, a social worker turned educator who oversees healthcare management, human services, and wellness programs at Bay Path University, about what it takes to rebuild a curriculum around AI when the stakes are patient outcomes. Zendell is currently piloting an AI-enhanced program from the ground up, designing courses where a closed AI system mentors students through interactive activities while faculty retain grading authority and instructional presence. The conversation covers why traditional learning outcomes don't translate cleanly into AI-driven instruction, how adult learners in healthcare face unique pressure to acquire AI literacy for careers that already demand it, and the trust gaps between students, faculty, and administrators that complicate adoption.Key Takeaways:Curriculum doesn't absorb AI -- it has to be rebuilt for it. Zendell found that standard learning outcomes written with Bloom's Taxonomy are too broad for an AI system to use as mentoring scaffolds. Her team breaks each outcome into granular component steps, essentially teaching the AI how to guide a student the way an experienced instructor would.AI is the first classroom technology to split faculty, students, and administration into opposing camps. Some faculty add zero-tolerance rubric rows while others experiment eagerly. Students range from uneasy to already reliant. Zendell describes a three-way perception gap she hasn't seen with any previous technology, including the transition to online learning.Healthcare employers aren't waiting for higher ed to figure this out. Zendell regularly scans job postings for healthcare leadership roles and finds AI literacy and AI tool proficiency appearing with increasing frequency, particularly in informatics, clinical data analytics, and healthcare finance. Her students are asking for these skills and feeling the urgency themselves.A student tester changed the entire design process. Zendell recruited an...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/mIvclI2fK-fQrurJTjPiYoTWWGoNWSdbv1_-Xa6ULdc/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS8yOTNk/OTcyZTcxOWE5MGIw/ZTY0MjU4ZGNlN2U5/NjM3My5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}