The Eight Essential Principles offer a human-centered framework for AI adoption in education, helping educators and institutions ensure that AI supports flourishing, relationships, creativity, accessibility, equity, inclusion, openness, and universality rather than reducing learning to efficiency, automation, or convenience.
Human-Centered Learning in the Age of AI: Eight Essential Principles
As artificial intelligence becomes embedded in education, the question is no longer whether AI will be present, but how it will shape what we value, design, and prioritize in teaching and learning. This article introduces the Eight Essential Principles for AI in Education, a human-centered framework that clarifies what must remain irreducibly human while translating those commitments into accessible, equitable, and inclusive practice.