The AI Literacy Framework for Elementary and Secondary Education in Canada offers a shared starting point for human-centred AI literacy across education systems.
Your perspective will help ensure it is practical, relevant, and grounded in the realities of schools across Canada. Explore the draft release and share your insights to help shape AI literacy in classrooms.
Young people across Canada are growing up in a world already being reshaped by AI. To learn, work, and participate in society, they need the knowledge, skills, and critical understanding to engage with AI systems thoughtfully and responsibly. In a country that values equity, we must work to ensure all young people, regardless of background, have access to AI literacy learning.
This draft framework is an invitation to start conversations. Its strength will come from the perspectives of those who adapt it to their realities and bring it to life in their classrooms and across education systems.
Explore this work, challenge it, and help shape its direction. Together, we can ensure AI literacy in Canada’s schools strengthens learning, upholds equity, and prepares all learners to participate confidently and responsibly in the future.
Indra Kubicek
CEO, Digital Moment
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This draft framework is a starting point for strengthening a shared reference for Artificial Intelligence (AI) literacy across elementary and secondary education in Canada. It supports learners to understand AI, navigate its impacts responsibly, and participate thoughtfully in AI-mediated contexts, grounded in human judgement, critical thinking, well-being, and the public good.
As an initial step, the framework encourages a collaborative, whole-system approach and invites educators, system and school leaders, policymakers, Indigenous education authorities, and community partners to contribute to its ongoing development and practical use across diverse contexts.
Meaningful and sustainable impact in AI literacy depends not only on individual effort or the adoption of specific tools, but on coordinated leadership and support across the education ecosystem, including education leaders, policymakers, educators, school staff, families, and community partners.
Each competency bridges system-level goals and measurable outcomes — making abstract policy real for students in any classroom.
The framework is designed to be dynamic, a living document, that grows and adapts with new research, technology advancements, policy shifts, and the evolving realities of the classroom.
By participating in this process, you are helping to shape the future of AI literacy in Canadian education.
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AI literacy builds on digital literacy. It develops the knowledge and critical thinking needed forlearners to understand, use, question, and apply AI. The goal is not for every learner to become a machine learning expert, but to develop the foundational understanding required to assess what AI systems can and cannot do, and to recognize both their limitations and their potential.
It includes attention to social, cultural, environmental, and economic implications, and reinforces that AI systems are human-designed technologies requiring ongoing human judgement and responsibility.
1. Educators and School Staff
- Educators
- School Staff and Student Support Professionals
2. Indigenous Education Authorities
3. Education Leadership and Governance
- Policymakers and System leaders
- School Boards and District Leadership
- School-level Leaders
4. Technology and IT Administrators
5. Teacher Education Programs
6. Community and Civil Society Partners
7. Families and Caregivers
The Framework designed to support uses such as:
- Coordination across education systems
- Curriculum planning and renewal
- Classroom instruction and learning design
- Professional learning and capacity building
- Policy development, governance, and leadership
- Equity, accessibility, and inclusion planning and practices
- Assessment and reporting
- Public understanding and engagement
- Continuous improvement and system learning
Use the sections that match your role - whether you’re supporting classroom practice, professional learning, leadership and governance, technology decisions, or community engagement.
You can start small, focus on what’s most relevant, and build over time.
The AI Literacy Framework for Elementary and Secondary Education in Canada is built on the understanding that advancing AI literacy requires a whole systems approach and a sense of shared responsibility.
Meaningful and sustainable impact in AI literacy depends not only on the efforts of individual contributors or the adoption of specific tools in classrooms, but on the collective contributions of education leaders, policymakers, educators, school staff, families, and community partners.
This is a draft, and we welcome participation from across Canada’s education ecosystem. You can contribute in several ways:
1. Share feedback through the public consultation (what’s clear, what’s missing, what would make it more usable).
2. Join as an Advisor, Contributor, or Supporter to provide ongoing perspective, help draft/review sections, or help pilot, amplify, and connect the work to communities.
3. Share resources (research, policies, curriculum materials, tools, or examples) that could strengthen future versions.
4. Offer implementation insights from your context (classroom, school, board/district, ministry/authority, community setting).
If you’d like to participate, contact us at aiframework@digitalmoment.org, and indicate the role(s) you’re interested in, the expertise or lived experience you would bring, and the type of involvement you can commit to (e.g., review cycles, section co-development, implementation feedback, or outreach).
This Framework is intended to be a living document. Following this draft release, we will incorporate feedback through structured review cycles and targeted revisions, and we will share updates as the evidence base, technology, and classroom realities evolve. We welcome comments and suggestions from all interested stakeholders to help strengthen the Framework in ways that best serve learners across Canada.
The AI Literacy Framework for Elementary and Secondary Education in Canada (Draft – March 31, 2026) was developed by Digital Moment.
