Artificial Intelligence Literacy
Abstract
Media literacy and AI literacy are essential skills of the 21st century. They are indispensable in education, the labor market, and digital citizenship. Therefore, it is of utmost importance to define the skills precisely, to define the framework of use, and to develop measurement tools and to make them known to the professional audience. The study focuses on three main areas in this regard. First, it presents the relationship between media literacy and AI literacy. Then, it introduces the AI literacy framework in higher education. Finally, it presents tools suitable for measuring AI literacy. Accordingly, the study first presents the UNESCO Digital Skills Framework. After media literacy, the study discusses the issue of AI literacy. AI literacy has been interpreted and defined in various ways. Ng and colleagues identified four main areas: knowledge and understanding of AI, the ability to use and apply AI, the ability to evaluate and create AI, and ethical considerations. The paper then presents the UNESCO AI Literacy for Students framework, which outlines 12 competencies in four dimensions: Human-Centered Thinking, Ethics in AI, AI Techniques and Applications, and AI System Design. These competencies span three levels of development: Understanding, Applying, and Creating. In the third major unit of the paper, we present the available measurement tools from the perspective of AI Literacy
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