The integration of generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) in education represents both an extraordinary opportunity and a complex challenge. While these tools can positively transform learning experiences, it is essential to ensure that educators and students use them critically, ethically, and with pedagogical grounding.

The TeachGenAI project emerges to address this urgent need, proposing an innovative conceptual framework centered on critical AI literacy. We recognize that existing guidance documents remain overly general, failing to adequately address educators’ specific concerns about GenAI’s impact on human agency, critical thinking, and educational inequalities.

TeachGenAI is structured around three fundamental pillars:

1. Develop a conceptual framework that promotes critical literacy in GenAI, empowering users to evaluate AI-generated content in an informed and ethical manner within active learning contexts.

2. Design educational programs targeted at primary and secondary students, accompanied by a professional development program for teachers, providing concrete tools for responsible GenAI integration.

3. Create scientifically validated assessment instruments that enable the measurement of critical GenAI literacy competencies among teachers and students.

We believe that critical thinking and argumentation are essential for students and educators to use GenAI as a tool for intellectual empowerment, remaining active participants in the educational process rather than passive consumers of technology.