The ai Education Project published its ai Readiness Frameworka comprehensive way for students, teachers, and school leaders to think about how to build ai readiness in US schools and evaluate what it means to be “ai ready” in a time of rapid technological change.
The aiEDU framework is unique and is based on dozens of stakeholder interviews, qualitative and quantitative research, including extensive survey work with educators, as well as existing research and frameworks in the field.
“ai is already an unavoidable part of our world, our economy and our K12 system. And we are only at the dawn: the transformation underway will redefine the essential skills needed for American students to keep up.” said Alex Kotran, co-founding CEO of aiEDU. “This framework will help define what ai Readiness really means and, most importantly, how we achieve it for a generation of students adapting to this new and rapidly changing technology.”
The aiEDU framework is based on two important concepts:
- ai Literacy, which the organization defines as the set of skills and knowledge that a person needs to confidently understand, ethically use, and critically evaluate artificial intelligence in a world where ai is ubiquitous.
- preparation for ai, which aiEDU defines as the underlying ability and skills to apply ai literacy to one's professional and personal endeavors. A person is ai-ready when they understand the interdisciplinary impacts of ai and can apply their human advantage along with evolving technology and leverage collaboration, creativity and self-advocacy along with ai to achieve their life and career potential.
The aiEDU framework has three parts. The first focuses on ai literacy and readiness competencies for students, including the concrete skills students need to develop ai literacy and readiness.
The second part focuses on similar competencies for educators. And the final component is the District Readiness Rubric, which provides guidance on what districts should do to prepare for the use and readiness of ai in their systems.
The framework is available, for free download, at www.aiedu.org.
“Our hope is that by establishing a clear framework we can help all key stakeholders – students, educators and district leaders – understand what it will take to keep up with the change ahead and proactively address it,” he said. Kotran. “One thing we have learned is that there is no 'national' solution to ai literacy and readiness, but a common sense of values will go a long way.”
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