PISA 2029 and AI Literacy: How UNESCO’s Framework Can Guide Pre-Service Teacher Education

• In Event: AERA Poster Session Sunday 9:45 am
  In Poster Session: Designing Preservice Teacher Learning: Exploring Lesson Planning, Computational Thinking, AR, and Generative AI

Abstract

A new domain Media and Artificial Intelligence Literacy (MAIL) will be assessed in PISA 2029. In this conceptual paper, we propose that teacher preparation programmes should be aware, prepared and oriented towards the AI Competency Framework for Teachers, such as the one established by UNESCO in 2024 (AI CFT). Our proposal advocates for embedding an AI literacy curriculum within subject-specific courses and teaching methods courses while also offering hands-on AI integration experiences based on the demonstrable connection between the MAIL areas and AI CFT categories. By helping teacher-candidates rise from Acquire to Deepen—and, where possible, to Create in each strand, the programme is already preparing them to design the learning experiences that PISA 2029 will assess.

Authors

• Zamzami Zainuddin, Flinders University

• Samuel Kai Wah Chu, Hong Kong Metropolitan University