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We finally have a definition—and it's still half the problem
The EU–OECD AI Literacy Framework, released 18 June 2026, is the most coherent curriculum structure of its kind — four domains, 19 competences, offline adaptations for under-resourced schools. It does not credential, fund teacher upskilling, or close the 9.7-million ICT specialist gap the EU's Digital Decade requires by 2030. Article 4 of the AI Act has obligated staff training since February 2025; the framework is guidance, not law, and the enforcement clock is already running.
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Mandates without mastery: the AI upskilling gap that vendor dashboards hide
Corporate AI mandates — Google tying usage to performance reviews, Meta tracking AI-assisted output, Microsoft declaring it non-optional — now outrun demonstrable capability. Eighty-two per cent of organisations provide AI training; 59% still report a skills gap. The deficit is not access — completion certificates measure the wrong thing, and firms are applying one-time training models to a skill that demands continuous, deliberate practice on realistic tasks.
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The Cornell Paper Is Not a Cheating Story
The Cornell paper will be read as a cheating story all summer. It is not. It is the first peer-reviewed admission, in a journal of record, that the most important thing universities sell has lost some of its meaning.
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Brussels spent one fortnight telling teachers to use AI — and to be careful it isn't illegal
Inside thirteen days Brussels told teachers to adopt AI, delayed the rules governing the riskiest classroom uses, and only then began explaining what those rules mean. It isn't a plan — it's three workstreams that never reconciled their calendars.
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Europe's AI Literacy Deadline Is Ten Weeks Away and Nobody Is Ready
The EU made AI literacy a legal duty eighteen months before the educational infrastructure it funded could plausibly deliver at scale. Article 4 enforcement begins in ten weeks. The sequencing mismatch is not an oversight — it is a compliance accident the Commission built with its own calendar.
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Sunday Essay — AI Literacy Is a Curriculum Word for an Assessment Problem
AI literacy is being legislated as a curriculum addition when the actual problem lives in the exam hall. Two institutions moved this fortnight — the EU Council and SUNY — and both reached for the cheaper of the two tools the problem requires. The calculator generation did not teach 'calculator literacy.' They re-architected what got tested without the machine.
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