Building AI Literacy for Teachers & Students, Issue 3 (3)
Preface
Building AI Literacy for Teachers & Students brings together research and practice that position artificial intelligence literacy as a developmental educational capacity rather than a technical add-on. In this issue, AI literacy is understood as the capacity to understand, use, and critically evaluate artificial intelligence systems, including how they are designed, trained, and applied in real-world contexts, encompassing technical awareness, ethical judgment, and informed decision-making rather than passive interaction with tools. The articles examine how AI literacy is conceptualized, taught, and experienced across educational levels, highlighting the roles of curriculum design, disciplinary integration, ethical reasoning, and contextual constraints. Collectively, they show how teachers function as mediators and designers of AI-informed learning environments, while students emerge as active sense-makers who learn to use, question, and evaluate AI systems. By foregrounding pedagogy, equity, and critical judgment alongside technological capability, this issue frames AI literacy as a shared responsibility essential for sustaining meaningful learning in AI-enhanced classrooms.
–Dr E Mahiban Ross, Chief Editor, Excellent Educator
Issue Contents
Understanding AI Literacy in the Age of ChatGPT
Offering a unifying analytical framework, supports clearer alignment between AI literacy initiatives and intended learning outcomes………Read Summary
Embedding AI Literacy in Biology
Contexts can meaningfully support AI literacy, careful instructional sequencing is required to maintain depth in core subject learning……….Read Summary
AI Literacy for Young Learners
Effectiveness of hands-on, experiential approaches and identifies gaps in teacher preparation and curriculum guidance for primary-level AI education………Read summary
Co-Designing AI Literacy Lessons
Co-design approach in which elementary teachers and researchers design AI literacy lesson is sustainable and context-sensitive model for AI literacy integration………Read Summary
Designing AI Literacy Through Students
Students as AI literate designers is a structured pedagogical model for AI literacy in elementary education..…..Read Summary
AI Literacy in Rural Schools
Contextual constraints and equity considerations influences AI literacy adoption..…..Read Summary
AI Literacy, Trust, and Dependency
Balanced AI integration is needed which supports independent reasoning……..Read Summary
Preparing Teachers for AI Classrooms
Institutional support, practical experience, and ethical preparation are essential for AI-enhanced teaching……..Read Summary
