{"id":469,"date":"2024-09-21T09:10:19","date_gmt":"2024-09-21T08:10:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/rrimap\/?p=469"},"modified":"2024-09-21T09:10:19","modified_gmt":"2024-09-21T08:10:19","slug":"unesco-ai-for-teachers-principles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/rrimap\/index.php\/2024\/09\/21\/unesco-ai-for-teachers-principles\/","title":{"rendered":"UNESCO AI for teachers &#8211; principles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>These AI principles for teachers emphasize a human-centered and inclusive approach to integrating AI in education.<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><strong>Inclusive Digital Futures<\/strong>: Teachers play a key role in balancing human-technology relationships and fostering human development. They must critically evaluate AI&#8217;s benefits and risks, ensuring ethical use while addressing privacy, indigenous knowledge, and social cohesion.<br \/>\n<em>Approach<\/em>: AI should enhance inquiry, intellectual growth, and transversal skills.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Human-Centered AI<\/strong>: AI should support human capacities and sustainable development. Teachers are responsible for ensuring AI models are explainable, safe, and inclusive, focusing on social inclusion and cultural pluralism.<br \/>\n<em>Approach<\/em>: Promote inclusivity across gender, ethnicity, and underserved groups.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Teacher Empowerment and Roles<\/strong>: Teachers&#8217; roles should be preserved, collaborating with AI rather than being replaced by it. Policies must equip teachers with AI tools for adapting to AI-rich environments.<br \/>\n<em>Approach<\/em>: Empower teachers as collaborative knowledge producers and guides to citizenship in the AI era.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Trustworthy and Sustainable AI<\/strong>: AI tools must be validated for safety, trustworthiness, and minimal environmental impact. Institutions, not teachers, should govern the ethics of AI use.<br \/>\n<em>Approach<\/em>: Providers must ensure transparency, performance, and impact of AI tools.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Applicability for All Teachers<\/strong>: AI literacy and access should be part of basic rights in the AI era. AI competencies should be integrated into national curricula, with accessible technology from unplugged to AI-rich environments.<br \/>\n<em>Approach<\/em>: Develop AI competencies, curricula, and training programs to support teachers.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Lifelong Professional Learning<\/strong>: Ongoing professional development is essential for teachers to stay up-to-date with AI advances. Policies should support practical, continuous learning, and cocreation of AI-enhanced educational experiences.<br \/>\n<em>Approach<\/em>: Peer-coaching and agile learning communities can foster responsive AI evolution.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These AI principles for teachers emphasize a human-centered and inclusive approach to integrating AI in education. Inclusive Digital Futures: Teachers play a key role in balancing human-technology relationships and fostering human development. They must critically evaluate AI&#8217;s benefits and risks, ensuring ethical use while addressing privacy, indigenous knowledge, and social cohesion. Approach: AI should enhance [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorised"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/rrimap\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/rrimap\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/rrimap\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/rrimap\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/rrimap\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=469"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/rrimap\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":470,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/rrimap\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469\/revisions\/470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/rrimap\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/rrimap\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/rrimap\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}