Generative AI Literacy

Building on the Department’s prior report, Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Teaching and Learning: Insights and Recommendations (“AI Report”), this toolkit is designed to help educational leaders make critical decisions about incorporating AI applications into student learning and the instructional core. The AI Report provides definitions and illustrates broad classes of opportunities, along with explaining key tensions and risks of including AI. This document sets forth and expands upon the material in the AI Report and connects broad ideas about AI to the establishment of school and district use policies that will guide its effective implementation. This toolkit provides guidance for the effective use and integration of AI in teaching and learning and presents an overview of Federal laws and considerations that are essential to anchoring and ensuring the use of AI in a safe, secure, and non-discriminatory manner. Finally, the toolkit promotes the principles of transparency and awareness in the use of AI in schools, and emphasizes the importance of providing students, teachers, and parents opportunities to opt out of AI-enabled applications in school.