What is ai literacy?
Quick answer
AI literacy is the ability to recognise where AI is being used, understand roughly how it works, judge its output, and decide when using it is appropriate.
NASCA assesses AI literacy through a published rubric, so a school can show growth term over term rather than asserting it.
In context
It sits alongside reading and numeracy as a general capability rather than a computing specialism. A history student needs it as much as a computer science student.
The four strands worth assessing are recognition, understanding, evaluation and ethical judgement. All four can be evidenced through ordinary subject work.
In a NASCA classroom
NASCA assesses AI literacy through a published rubric, so a school can show growth term over term rather than asserting it.
Related terms
Artificial intelligence
Artificial intelligence is software that learns patterns from data and uses them to make predictions or generate new content, instead of following rules a person wrote by hand.
Generative AI
Generative AI produces new text, images, audio or code by predicting what should come next, based on patterns learned from very large amounts of training data.
STEAM education
STEAM education teaches science, technology, engineering, arts and mathematics as one connected practice, usually through projects where students design, build and test something real.