ai literacy

Major employers in technology and finance are no longer asking whether new hires should know how to use AI — they are saying it is a basic requirement, and that simple proficiency with generative tools is now part of the job description. This shift from curiosity to competency is being driven by...

Oglethorpe University’s upcoming On Mutual Ground conversation, “Ethics and the Future of AI,” is a timely microcosm of a national reckoning: students and campus leaders are trying to translate the abstract ethics debates about generative AI into classroom practice, institutional policy, and...

Carnegie Mellon’s campuses, lecture halls, and grading rubrics are now the front lines in a debate every university is quietly having: can generative AI be taught as a skill without letting it hollow out the learning it’s supposed to support? The answer CMU’s School of Computer Science is...

Artificial intelligence is already reshaping how students study, how teachers teach, and how schools measure learning—and the question most parents, teachers, and students now ask is not whether AI will matter, but how it should be used so that it actually benefits learning rather than replacing...

The University of Manchester’s decision to give every student and staff member campus‑wide access to Microsoft 365 Copilot, paired with a structured training programme, marks a pivotal moment in higher education’s shift from AI anxiety to institutional AI literacy and managed adoption — and it...

The University of Manchester has announced a strategic collaboration with Microsoft that will give every student and member of staff access to Microsoft 365 Copilot and accompanying training — a campus‑wide rollout covering some 65,000 people and scheduled for completion by summer 2026...

Central Bucks School District’s plan to embed AI literacy into classroom instruction lands at a moment of sharp contrast: districts across the country are moving quickly to teach students how to use and evaluate artificial intelligence, even as security researchers expose new ways those same AI...

South Korea’s education system is at a crossroads: an influential editorial in the Korea JoongAng Daily warns that the nation cannot afford the slow, incremental reforms of the past and must redesign classroom priorities, assessments and teacher development now to prepare every citizen — not...

The simplest, fastest free combo for building real AI literacy in 2026 is a short, hands‑on vendor primer (Google’s Generative AI learning path) paired with a platform‑neutral conceptual backbone (the University of Helsinki’s Elements of AI); taken together they teach what tools do and why they...

Microsoft Thailand’s announcement that it, together with the Digital Economy Promotion Agency (depa) and SCB Academy, has launched the Hour of AI under the Microsoft Elevate umbrella marks a concerted push to move Thai students and teachers from passive AI users toward responsible AI creators —...

The Carson College of Business recently staged a focused, two‑day immersion into practical AI literacy—an inaugural AI@Carson Workshop held Nov. 1–2 at WSU Pullman’s Spark Academic Innovation Hub that brought roughly 60 students together to learn prompt engineering, ethics, discipline‑specific...

A growing national debate over grading, accelerated by pandemic-era policies and reshaped classroom practices, has been reignited by a new Harvard College report and coverage in The Chronicle of Higher Education — and it lands squarely on the classroom floor where faculty, students, and...

University of Phoenix’s new centralized AI Center for students represents a decisive step toward mainstreaming generative AI literacy and practices across a large, working-adult population of learners, pairing tool access with policy, ethics, and practical instruction to help students use AI...

University of Phoenix has launched a centralized Center for AI Resources, a student‑facing hub intended to teach working adult learners, faculty and staff how to use generative AI (GenAI) ethically, safely and effectively—bundling plain‑language AI literacy, course‑aligned expectations, hands‑on...

University of Phoenix has launched a centralized Center for AI Resources to give working adult learners, faculty and staff a single, policy‑aligned hub for learning what generative AI is, how to use it responsibly in coursework, and how to apply AI skills for career-relevant outcomes. Background...

University of Phoenix has launched a centralized Center for AI Resources aimed at helping working adult learners, faculty and staff navigate generative AI responsibly, build practical AI literacy, and use institution-provisioned tools such as Microsoft Copilot within a governed learning...

University of Wisconsin–Madison faculty describe a classroom change that is less about a single product and more about a shift in what it means to teach and be assessed: generative AI is now a routine part of instruction, but professors are wrestling with how to preserve learning, guard against...

The University of Cincinnati is moving from AI curiosity to campus-wide capability with a coordinated program of initiatives branded Bearcat AI Ready!, a set of academic, research and operational efforts designed to make students, faculty and staff confident users, builders and governors of...

IITs, IIMs and other Indian campuses are scrambling to translate a sudden and widespread student reliance on ChatGPT and other generative AI into workable academic policy, not merely by banning or permitting tools, but by redesigning assessments, procurement and pedagogy to protect learning...

As AI accelerates the automation of routine digital work, a fast‑circulating Samaa TV piece argues that five formerly reliable technical skills — data entry, basic graphic design, basic web development, social media management, and simple video editing — no longer deliver the career returns they...