Modules
- Engaging with AI
- Creating with AI
- Managing AI
- Designing AI
What is the AI Literacy Framework?
Who is the AI Literacy Framework intended for?
The framework is designed for educators, school leaders, learning designers and policymakers to integrate AI literacy into educational programs, ensuring that students are prepared to navigate an AI-driven world.
What are the key competencies identified by the framework?
The framework is structured around 4 domains:
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Engaging with AI
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Creating with AI
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Managing AI
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Designing AI
Each domain includes competencies that integrate technical knowledge, transferable skills, and attitudes such as responsibility, curiosity, and empathy.
Is there an exam or certification?
Not at the moment. The framework provides guidelines, learning scenarios, and sample assessment activities to support formative evaluation by teachers. However, it will influence future international assessments: AI literacy will be measured in the PISA 2029 cycle.
Why is it important to introduce AI literacy in schools?
Because artificial intelligence is already part of students’ everyday lives. Without proper education, they risk passively accepting AI outputs, exposing themselves to misinformation, bias, and injustice. With strong AI literacy, students learn to use AI consciously, ethically, and constructively, becoming active agents in shaping their digital future.
About AI Literacy
The AI Literacy Framework – Empowering learners for the age of artificial intelligence is the international reference framework designed to promote AI literacy in primary and secondary education. It is the result of a joint initiative by the European Commission and the OECD, with contributions from Code.org and world-renowned experts.
This framework provides a common language, a shared vision, and a set of key competencies to help students, teachers, curriculum designers, and policymakers navigate a world transformed by AI.
Its mission is to make every young person an informed and active citizen in the age of artificial intelligence—capable of understanding how AI works, evaluating its impact, and contributing ethically and responsibly to its development.
Objectives
The AI Literacy Framework identifies four core domains through which students can develop meaningful AI literacy:
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Engaging with AI
Learning to recognize AI in various contexts, analyze its outputs, evaluate its reliability, and understand its limitations. -
Creating with AI
Collaborating with AI systems to generate content or solve problems, while maintaining creative control and reflecting on issues of ownership, attribution, and responsibility. -
Managing AI
Using AI strategically to automate tasks and augment human work, while promoting independent thinking and critical decision-making. -
Designing AI
Understanding how AI systems work, designing simple models, selecting and curating data, and reflecting on the ethical and social implications of design choices.
Benefits
Implementing the framework offers significant educational and social benefits:
- Preparation for the real world
74% of students aged 12 to 17 in Europe believe AI will play a key role in their professional lives. This framework equips them with the competencies to face that reality. - Development of critical and creative thinking
Working with AI enhances problem-solving, ethical reflection, computational thinking, social awareness, and collaboration. - Reducing the risks of uncritical AI use
49% of young people struggle to properly assess the limitations of AI. The framework helps them recognize and counteract bias, misinformation, and misuse. - Interdisciplinary integration
AI literacy connects with multiple subjects—science, civics, computer science, art, communication—fostering well-rounded education.
Exam Mode
Currently, the AI Literacy Framework does not include a formal certification or standardized test. However:
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It provides numerous examples of scenarios and assessment activities that teachers can use in the classroom, focusing on observation, reflection, self-assessment and feedback.
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Emphasis is placed on formative and authentic assessment, integrated into daily learning and adaptable across different educational levels.
Looking Ahead
Artificial intelligence is reshaping education, work, and society— but the future is not predetermined. It can be shaped by informed, ethical, and imaginative citizens.
This framework is not just an instructional tool, but an educational vision grounded in justice, transparency, and responsibility. It promotes active digital citizenship, where students are not passive users of technology but drivers of change.
The final version of the framework will be released in 2026 and will include practical examples, curriculum materials, and professional development tools for educators.
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