Stephen Downes

Knowledge, Learning, Community

This is a useful article because it links to a number of recent AI literacy frameworks. It also makes the case that our mastery of AI will need to go beyond literacy. "I suggest we adopt a tried-and-true educational model that governs our thinking around curriculum frameworks: A scope and sequence. The final outcome of that scope and sequence should be AI fluency." This could be true - but I would caution that what counts as AI literacy, much less fluency, is very much a moving target. As a case in point, for example: do we or don't we need prompt engineering? New, related, and not mentioned in the article: Acadia University's free Introduction to AI Literacy course (and CBC coverage). Also: the U.S. Department of Labor's new Framework for Artificial Intelligence Literacy (15 page PDF).

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