Glossary
Collection of relevant technical terms

Table of technical terms
Terms introduced in the playbook 
 
 
 
 
 Term 
 Explanation 
 Also used in 
 
 
 Automation bias 
 
 Accepting a machine's suggestion without independently checking it 
 
 
 
 
 AI Detector 
 
 Software claiming to identify machine-written text. What it actually measures is predictability. 
 
 1.5 
 
 
 AI Pedagogical Competency Framework 
 
 Structure that sorts AI-related teaching competencies into dimensions & levels and links them to outcomes & assessments. 
 
 
 
 
 Bias 
 Slants inherited from the material a system learned from and not reliably reduced by making the system bigger 
 1.4, 1.5 
 
 
 Certification pathway 
 The route through which competences are validated and formally recognised, here as a dual pathway.  
 
 
 
 Cognitive offloading 
 Handing mental work to something outside your head. It is useful when knowledge is in place, and damaging when it is still forming. 
 1.4 
 
 
 Competence 
 What a teacher knows, can do & is willing to do, described so that it can be taught and checked.  
 
 
 
 Deskilling 
 The slow erosion of professional exptertise when a tool absorbs the work through which that expertise is maintained. 
 1.4 
 
 
 Digital Badge 
 The shareable digital form of a certificate or micro-credential.  
 
 
 
 Dimension 
 One of the broad areas the framework is divided into, each grouping competences that belong together in practice.  
 
 
 
 False positive 
 A correct, honest piece of work wrongly flagged. The error that damages students 
 1.4, 1.5 
 
 
 Guardrails 
 Limits built into a system so that it supports thinking instead of replacing it. 
 1.4, 1.5 
 
 
 Hallucination 
 Fluent, confident, false. Not a defect awaiting a patch but a consequence of how the systems generate text 
 1.4, 1.5 
 
 
 Integration roadmap 
 The step-by-step route a teacher or an institution takes from first contact with AI to settled practice.  
   
 
 
 Knowledge-action gap 
 The measured distance between knowing about AI and teaching differently because of it. 
 1.4, 1.5 
 
 
 Micro-credential  
 A smaller certification covering one focused set of competences instead of a whole pathway. 
 
 
 
 Schema 
 Person's organised knowledge 
 1.4 
 
 
 Teaching about AI 
 Making AI itself the subject of the lesson, so that students understand how it works & where it fails. 
 
 
 
 Teaching with AI 
 Using AI as a tool for your own teaching work, from planning to feedback.