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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 GuardrailsIntegration roadmap LimitsThe builtstep-by-step intoroute a systemteacher soor thatan itinstitution supportstakes thinkingfrom insteadfirst ofcontact replacingwith it.AI to settled practice.  1.4, 1.5 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.