What’s of interest? AI Literacy - building on the Essential Elements of Digital Literacies
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… is We Are Open Co-op’s approach builds on the Eight Elements of Digital Literacies, a contextual, plural approach to AI literacies.
Navigating the human and technological aspects of AI, we help you understand its impact in meaningful, practical ways.
AI literacies are part of digital literacies, not a separate field.
Opened Culture has remixed WAO member Dr Doug Belshaw’s Essential Elements of Digital Literacies into the Dimensions of AI Literacies. This is one way the open community can work together to define AI literacies in different contexts.
We aim to demystify AI. By promoting AI Literacies, we seek to raise awareness of their significance and contribute thoughtfully to the ongoing discussion. Our goal is to share perspectives and resources that enable individuals to engage with AI critically and responsibly, centering human creativity and flourishing.
This is one among many items I will regularly tag in Pinboard as oegconnect, and automatically post tagged as #OEGConnect to Mastodon. Do you know of something else we should share like this? Just reply below and we will check it out.
Thanks for highlighting @cogdog. We’ve just started some work around AI LIteracy with the Responsible Innovation Centre for Public Media Futures, hosted by the BBC.
If anyone reading this has definitions, frameworks, or resources to share relating to people aged 14-19, please get in touch!
Thanks for sharing! I’m excited to dive into this.
At World Education, we’ve taken a similar approach (connecting to digital literacy) in our BRIDGES framework. We followed DigComp’s example by writing example competencies and tagging some with “AI”.
For example: In Information Skills (domain) Evaluate Online Information (skill) I can use strategies to verify whether a shocking video of a known person might be a “deepfake”. (AI)
We’re continuing to explore how to make these connections and embed them in existing resources and guidance for educators to support AI literacy as a part of digital literacies. I appreciate seeing how others are appraoching this so that we raise awareness regarding AI literacy while addressing the urgent need for expanding digital literacies more broadly.
You may also find this brief of interest, where we’ve crosswalked AI literacy with others like “financial literacy” - worlded.me/ailitmatters
Thanks for sharing these resources from World Education, the overall Digital Skills Library and in there BRIDGES especially the interactive version is worth a deeper dive for those reading here.
That’s an interesting way to break down each skill in areas “In My Life” “In My Work” In My Education" and “As a Teacher/Trainer”
This is free open to use, correct? I do not see any kind of license/terms of use for reuse, though many of the resources do carry CC licenses.
I do encourage others to explore more, I just took a quick fly by.
Yes! On that first page you’ll see the option to “download the full toolkit” as doc or PDF and, in the footer on those, you’ll find a CC-BY-NC-SA license.
This is an framework heavily informed by research done by the Seattle Digital Equity Initiative, Dr. Stacey Wedlake, which combined various assessments, curricula, and frameworks into this aggregate version. Since then, our team at World Education has continued to update and build upon that seminal work to grow and update it and build resources to support its implementation in adult education settings in the U.S. Definitely that “as a teacher/trainer” section is heavily informed by our implementation, in which we see time and again that educators and learners are on a parallel journey of building digital resilience.
Massive thanks for sharing all these awesome resources! @cogdog@RachelTESOL@dajbelshaw The BRIDGES toolkit, the AI Literacy insights, and now this youth-focused project with the BBC — all super valuable! Love how each one adds a fresh perspective on digital and AI skills. Really appreciate you keeping us in the loop! Keep ‘em coming!"
Evaluate Online Information (skill) 
Love how each one adds a fresh perspective on digital and AI skills. Really appreciate you keeping us in the loop! 
Keep ‘em coming!"