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AI & Digital Readiness is the ability to use, understand, build, and apply emerging technologies. Built on durable human skills, these abilities keep students ready for an ever-changing workforce.
Using technology safely and effectively, and creating with it.
Digital readiness starts with digital literacy: working with digital tools, evaluating sources, and protecting privacy. It grows through computer science, where students go from using technology to building it.
Knowing how AI works, where it fails, and how to put it to work.
AI readiness means understanding how AI systems produce outputs, where they fail, and when to verify. Then it means applying AI tools well inside a real field of work, from cybersecurity and IT to any CTE subject.
Put them together and you get AI & Digital Readiness: four abilities, built on durable skills like critical thinking, problem-solving, and creativity, that hold up no matter how the workforce changes.
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Navigate technology safely and effectively. Evaluate sources and protect privacy.
Understand how AI works and the science behind it: where it fails and when to verify.
Create with CS and AI tools to develop critical thinking through programming and computational thinking.
Apply AI and be prepared to solve real-world problems in cybersecurity, IT, and any CTE field.
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We call on legislators, state education agencies, local education agencies, and regional education centers to advocate for policy and funding for AI & Digital Readiness, including computer science.
So all K-12 students get AI literacy and skills.
The foundation every other pillar stands on.
With incentives for industry certifications.
One high school CS course boosts wages by 8% for all students (Unlock 8).
Dedicated instructional time, starting where computational thinking gains begin.
For AI & Digital Readiness, digital and media literacy, and more.
Fed by a pipeline of quality K-8 CS and AI education.
And partner with higher education on AI literacy for pre-service teachers.
Inspired in part by Utah’s pro-human AI framework. We believe that posture can reach every level of education.
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