From Syllabus to Strategy: Map Your Curriculum to AI Literacy
The Navigate AI Literacy Map is a flexible framework that helps educators align course outcomes and programs to essential domains of AI fluency.
Why You Need an AI Literacy Map
AI Literacy Isn’t Optional. It’s Foundational.
AI is quickly becoming as essential as writing, research, or critical thinking. Institutions are being asked to build AI-literate graduates—but most lack a shared vision of what that actually means. The AI Literacy Map helps faculty and academic leaders define what AI fluency looks like, scaffold it across levels and programs, and ensure students are ready for the world ahead.
“Most faculty want to embed AI literacy, but don't know where to start. The Map gave us the structure to move from one-off ideas to a real institutional framework.”
Core Domains of AI Literacy
The Six Domains of AI Literacy
| Domain | Description |
|---|---|
| Foundations | Understanding what AI is, how it works, and how it’s evolving |
| Tool Fluency | Using and evaluating AI systems responsibly and effectively |
| Ethics | Considering bias, privacy, transparency, and impact |
| Critical Thinking | Questioning AI’s role, trustworthiness, and influence on knowledge |
| Communication | Understanding how AI shapes media, messaging, and voice |
| Disciplinary Application | Using AI within field-specific inquiry and practice |
The AI Literacy Map breaks a complex and fast-moving topic into six clear, actionable domains. Each represents a foundational area students must understand to become AI-literate citizens and professionals. These domains aren’t theoretical—they’re practical, adaptable, and ready to embed into real courses, programs, and institutional outcomes.
Use Cases
How Institutions Use the Literacy Map
The AI Literacy Map isn’t just a visual framework—it’s a strategic planning tool that brings coherence, clarity, and momentum to curriculum conversations. Academic leaders use it to identify gaps, faculty use it to shape course redesigns, and instructional designers rely on it to guide interdisciplinary planning. It works equally well for department retreats, accreditation planning, and long-term AI integration goals. Whether you’re developing a Gen Ed requirement or refreshing a senior capstone, the Map provides a shared language and adaptable structure.
Build AI fluency outcomes into general education or QEP plans
Scaffold AI awareness from intro courses to capstones
Align assignments and assessments to AI-critical skills
Create curriculum audits for program or department planning
Participants receive a personalized reflection profile with suggested next steps, while institutions can use aggregate results to identify training gaps, inform policy decisions, or tailor future programs.
Related Toolkits
From Vision to Implementation
The AI Fluency Map helps you define what students should know—but implementation is where transformation happens. That’s why Navigate AI offers toolkits and workshops that translate the Map into course-level redesign, curriculum strategy, and faculty alignment. These offerings guide you from conversation to action, helping your team co-create assignments, map outcomes, and build campus-wide momentum around AI literacy.
Curriculum AI Literacy Design Kit – Assignment templates, mapping worksheets, and model outcomes to turn the Map into applied teaching practice
Curriculum Innovation Sprint – Multi-day facilitated redesign sprint to align programs with AI literacy goals
META Assignment Redesign Lab – Faculty-focused workshop to operationalize responsible AI use in assessments
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AI Fluency Map
A competency map to assess & guide student AI fluency development
Build Your AI-Literate Curriculum, One Course at a Time
The AI Literacy Map gives you the strategy. Our tools and workshops help you execute it—starting with one course, one department, or one conversation at a time.