The UNESCO AI Competency Frameworks
Two frameworks. One human-centred standard. Operationalised inside learnOS.
In 2024 UNESCO published the first global AI Competency Frameworks — one for teachers, one for students — defining the knowledge, skills and values needed to use AI responsibly in education. learnOS is built to enact those frameworks in everyday classroom practice, not just cite them.
AI CFT — for teachers
The AI Competency Framework for Teachers
UNESCO's AI CFT defines what every teacher should know and be able to do across five competency areas — Human-centred Mindset, Ethics of AI, AI Foundations & Applications, AI Pedagogy, and AI for Professional Development — each progressing through three levels: Acquire, Deepen, Create.
Read the UNESCO AI CFT →Human-centred Mindset
How learnOS enacts it: Teacher-as-gatekeeper is enforced at the product level: every AI-drafted grade, comment or question requires a one-click teacher confirmation before it reaches a student or parent.
Ethics of AI
How learnOS enacts it: Data masking, regional data residency and a strict no-training-on-student-data policy make UNESCO's ethics principles a default, not an opt-in.
AI Foundations & Applications
How learnOS enacts it: The Fellowship's applied modules walk teachers from prompt basics to multi-assistant workflows — moving them through Acquire → Deepen → Create on real lessons.
AI Pedagogy
How learnOS enacts it: The five AI assistants map directly onto the teaching cycle (prepare, deliver, diagnose, assess, communicate), so AI is used pedagogically — not as a novelty tool.
AI for Professional Development
How learnOS enacts it: Every teacher builds a personal resource base inside learnOS Teacher Edition — lessons, rubrics, reflections — that compounds into a portfolio of evidence for the Create level.
AI CFS — for students
The AI Competency Framework for Students
UNESCO's AI CFS sets out four competency blocks — Human-centred Mindset, Ethics of AI, AI Techniques & Applications, and AI System Design — across the same three progression levels (Understand, Apply, Create). It is designed to be embedded across subjects, not taught as a stand-alone course.
Read the UNESCO AI CFS →Human-centred Mindset
How learnOS enacts it: Students always see AI output framed as a draft awaiting their teacher's judgment — reinforcing human agency from the first interaction.
Ethics of AI
How learnOS enacts it: Classroom activities and quizzes can flag AI use, bias and source attribution, giving students concrete practice with ethical AI behaviour rather than abstract rules.
AI Techniques & Applications
How learnOS enacts it: Interactive in-class exercises, variant practice and the Digital Classroom Archive let students Understand → Apply AI-enabled learning tools across every subject.
AI System Design
How learnOS enacts it: At the Create level, learnOS exposes safe building blocks — prompt templates, rubric editors, knowledge-graph views — so students can design and critique AI-supported learning experiences themselves.
Why this matters
Most AI tools leave schools to interpret UNESCO's frameworks on their own. learnOS does the opposite — it bakes the human-centred mindset, ethical guardrails, pedagogical workflows and progression levels directly into the product, so every lesson a Fellow runs is, by default, an act of compliance with the global standard.