AI competency framework for students
Paris: UNESCO (2024), 80 pp.
ISBN 978-92-3-100709-5
CC BY-SA
"Integrating AI learning objectives into official school curricula is crucial for students globally to engage safely and meaningfully with AI. The UNESCO AI competency framework for students aims to help educators in this integration, outlining 12 competencies across four dimensions: Human-centred mindset, Ethics of AI, AI techniques and applications, and AI system design. These competencies span three progression levels: Understand, Apply, and Create. The framework details curricular goals and domain-specific pedagogical methodologies. Grounded in a vision of students as AI co-creators and responsible citizens, the framework emphasizes critical judgement of AI solutions, awareness of citizenship responsibilities in the era of AI, foundational AI knowledge for lifelong learning, and inclusive, sustainable AI design." (Short summary)
CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION, 12
Why an AI competency framework for students? -- Purpose and target audience
CHAPTER 2: KEY PRINCIPLES, 14
Fostering a critical approach to AI -- Prioritizing human-centred interaction with AI -- Encouraging environmentally sustainable AI -- Promoting inclusivity in AI competency development -- Building core AI competencies for lifelong learning
CHAPTER 3: STRUCTURE OF THE AI COMPETENCY FRAMEWORK FOR STUDENTS, 18
The framework -- Progression levels -- Aspects: Human-centred mindset -- Ethics of AI -- AI techniques and applications -- AI system design
CHAPTER 4: SPECIFICATIONS OF AI COMPETENCIES FOR STUDENTS, 27
Level 1: Understand -- Level 2: Apply -- Level 3: Create
CHAPTER 5: APPLYING THE FRAMEWORK, 53
Aligning AI competencies as the foundation for national AI strategies -- Building interdisciplinary core and cluster AI curricula for AI competency -- Framing future-proofing and locally feasible AI domains as carriers of the curriculum -- Tailoring age-appropriate spiral curricular sequences -- Building enabling learning environments for AI curricula -- Promoting the professionalization of AI teachers and streamlining their support -- Guiding the cohort-based design and organization of pedagogical activities -- Constructing competency-based assessments on the progression of key AI aspects
CONCLUSION, 78
Why an AI competency framework for students? -- Purpose and target audience
CHAPTER 2: KEY PRINCIPLES, 14
Fostering a critical approach to AI -- Prioritizing human-centred interaction with AI -- Encouraging environmentally sustainable AI -- Promoting inclusivity in AI competency development -- Building core AI competencies for lifelong learning
CHAPTER 3: STRUCTURE OF THE AI COMPETENCY FRAMEWORK FOR STUDENTS, 18
The framework -- Progression levels -- Aspects: Human-centred mindset -- Ethics of AI -- AI techniques and applications -- AI system design
CHAPTER 4: SPECIFICATIONS OF AI COMPETENCIES FOR STUDENTS, 27
Level 1: Understand -- Level 2: Apply -- Level 3: Create
CHAPTER 5: APPLYING THE FRAMEWORK, 53
Aligning AI competencies as the foundation for national AI strategies -- Building interdisciplinary core and cluster AI curricula for AI competency -- Framing future-proofing and locally feasible AI domains as carriers of the curriculum -- Tailoring age-appropriate spiral curricular sequences -- Building enabling learning environments for AI curricula -- Promoting the professionalization of AI teachers and streamlining their support -- Guiding the cohort-based design and organization of pedagogical activities -- Constructing competency-based assessments on the progression of key AI aspects
CONCLUSION, 78
