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Table of technical terms

Terms introduced in the playbook

Term Explanation Also used in
AI Pedagogical Competency Framework

Structure that sorts AI-related teaching competencies into dimensions & levels and links them to outcomes & assessments.


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
Guardrails Limits built into a system so that it supports thinking instead of replacing it. 1.4, 1.5
Knowledge-action gap The measured distance between knowing about AI and teaching differently because of it. 1.4, 1.5
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.