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🌐 New Whitepaper: A.I. Fluency-Building Essential Skills and Discernment For The Modern Learner
This whitepaper argues that artificial intelligence is not simply a new tool to integrate into schools, but a catalyst forcing educators to rethink compliance-based learning, redefine assessment, and prioritize human-centered skills such as discernment, reflection, and ethical judgment. It presents a comprehensive framework for shifting from AI literacy to AI fluency, emphasizing meaningful learning experiences, process-driven assessment, and instructional models that keep humans — not machines — in charge of the narrative, values, and meaning.
Snapshot view of the new whitepaper (click image to download PDF)
For schools, this moment poses a fundamental choice.
We can use AI to make outdated processes more efficient — automating low-value tasks, accelerating compliance-based work, and preserving systems built for a world that no longer exists.
Or we can treat AI as a catalyst that forces us to confront deeper questions:
What learning truly matters in a world where knowledge retrieval is instant?
What human skills become more valuable, not less, in an AI-powered economy?
What kinds of thinking, judgment, creativity, and discernment cannot be automated?
Check out my NotebookLM overview video of the key themes from our Whitepaper.
If you’re a K-12 leader, here’s your move:
Retire “AI-literacy” as a headline goal. Use it, if at all, only as a supporting idea within broader digital and media literacy.
Elevate “AI-fluency” as your guiding phrase. Define it locally as the ability to collaborate with AI to read, write, think, and create at higher levels.
Publicly recommit to foundational literacy. Make it crystal clear to your community: AI is here to strengthen reading and writing, not compete with them.
Design your PD, curriculum pilots, and policies around AI-fluency in context inside real tasks, real classes, real problems.
Your students don’t need to pass an “AI-literacy test.”
They need to read well enough, think deeply enough, and write clearly enough to be empowered in the best possible way, with or without AI at their side.
Get the PDF whitepaper here 👉 AI Fluency: Building Essential Skills and Discernment for the Modern Learner.
A.J. Juliani
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