ai literacy

The University of Leicester has announced a Microsoft collaboration to provide full Microsoft 365 Copilot access to more than 21,000 students and 4,000 staff, making it one of the first UK universities to deploy the AI assistant across an entire academic community. The move is not just another...

Malta launched a national AI literacy programme on May 16, 2026, offering residents aged 14 and over a free two-hour online course and, on completion, a one-year subscription to either ChatGPT Plus or Microsoft 365 Personal Copilot. The move is small in geography but large in symbolism: a...

Students’ creativity and artificial intelligence are increasingly being treated as the same conversation, and that is exactly what makes this region’s future so interesting. A local feature about the role of creativity and AI in workforce development points to a broader truth: the next...

The University of Waterloo’s latest student-facing piece on generative AI does not frame ChatGPT and Microsoft Copilot as villains. Instead, it draws a clear line between using GenAI to deepen understanding and using it to sidestep the work entirely, warning that the difference is less about the...

Tshwane University of Technology’s Faculty of Information and Communication Technology (FoICT) used a hands‑on Microsoft Copilot workshop to give first‑year ICT students a practical introduction to generative AI across research, writing, coding and productivity — an experience designed to bridge...

The new course at North Star Academy Washington Park High School in Newark doesn’t sell students on the idea that AI is a friendly oracle — it teaches them to treat chatbots the way a driving instructor treats a learner: as powerful machines that need an alert, trained human behind the wheel...

A new kind of civics lesson is unfolding in a fourth‑floor classroom in downtown Newark: instead of debating whether technology will replace jobs or rewrite the rules of the internet, seniors at North Star Academy Washington Park High School are being taught how to steer artificial intelligence...

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...