Education: Guidance and Good Practices

UNESCO’s Beijing Consensus on AI and Education is a landmark international agreement that sets out guiding principles for the responsible, equitable, and human-centred use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in education. The document acknowledges the transformative potential of AI—such as supporting personalized learning, improving assessment systems, and enhancing educational management—while also highlighting key risks including privacy breaches, data misuse, technological dependency, and the amplification of social inequalities. The Consensus outlines core principles such as the protection of human rights, the promotion of equity and inclusion, transparency, data protection, and strong support for teacher training and capacity building. It calls on countries to develop robust governance frameworks and involve all education stakeholders—students, teachers, policymakers, and families—in shaping the role of AI in learning environments. As a global reference, it provides essential guidance for ensuring that AI in education advances quality, fairness, and the wellbeing of learners worldwide.

UNESCO’s Guidance for Generative AI in Education and Research provides practical recommendations to support the ethical, safe, and responsible use of Generative Artificial Intelligence (Generative AI) within educational and research environments. The guidance highlights the transformative opportunities of Generative AI—enhancing creativity, enabling personalized learning, supporting content creation, and improving research workflows—while also addressing key risks such as misinformation, privacy breaches, data misuse, embedded biases, and challenges in verifying authenticity. The document offers targeted recommendations for educators, researchers, and institutions, including ensuring transparency and traceability, maintaining active human oversight, safeguarding data security, and promoting practices that uphold academic integrity and scientific rigor. Its overarching goal is to ensure that Generative AI is deployed in a way that enriches learning, fosters innovation, and strengthens scientific inquiry, while protecting individual rights and societal wellbeing.

ISTE’s Artificial Intelligence in Education initiative promotes the transformative and responsible use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in schools and learning environments, supporting educators, students, and institutional leaders in navigating the opportunities and challenges of AI. The initiative examines the pedagogical value of AI—such as enabling personalized learning, fostering creativity, streamlining administrative tasks, and developing advanced digital skills—while also emphasizing the need to address ethical concerns including privacy risks, algorithmic biases, transparency and accountability. ISTE provides training programs, curricular resources, competency frameworks, and practical tools designed to help educational communities integrate AI safely and effectively. Its overarching mission is to prepare learners and educators to understand, evaluate, and use AI critically and responsibly, contributing to more innovative, inclusive, and future-ready education systems.

The ISTE Standards for Educators provide an essential, future-oriented framework to help teachers and education professionals develop advanced digital competencies and meaningfully integrate technology—including Artificial Intelligence—into teaching and learning. The guide outlines key educator roles in the digital age: designer of innovative learning experiences, active facilitator, leader in the school community, data-informed decision-maker, and responsible digital citizen. The standards emphasize fostering creativity, critical thinking, collaboration, and personalized learning while ensuring equity, safety, and inclusion in technology use. They also offer concrete guidance to support continuous professional growth and help educators adapt to technological change with confidence and pedagogical purpose. As a comprehensive reference, the ISTE Standards empower educators to harness digital tools effectively and ethically, contributing to more engaging, modern, and future-ready education systems.

The Guidelines on the Use of Artificial Intelligence in Education published by INTEF (2024) provide an up-to-date and practical framework to support teachers and educational institutions in the ethical, safe and pedagogically meaningful integration of Artificial Intelligence (AI). The document explores the potential of AI to enhance learning through personalization, real-time feedback, educational analytics and task automation, while also highlighting key risks such as data privacy concerns, algorithmic bias, lack of transparency, technological dependence and threats to teacher autonomy. The guidelines offer concrete recommendations for educators and schools, including strengthening human oversight, ensuring responsible data management, validating AI tools, promoting students’ critical thinking and guaranteeing equitable and responsible use of technology. Their aim is to ensure that AI is introduced in education in an ethical, inclusive and effective manner that enhances learning outcomes and supports the wellbeing of the entire school community.

The Guide for the Use of Artificial Intelligences in the Educational Field (Basque Country, 2025), developed by the Basque Government in collaboration with Elhuyar, provides updated and practical guidance for the ethical, safe and meaningful integration of Artificial Intelligences (AI) in schools. The document highlights the opportunities AI offers—such as personalized learning, content creation, task automation and advanced learning analytics—while also addressing key risks including privacy concerns, algorithmic bias, lack of transparency and potential impacts on teacher autonomy or students’ critical thinking. The guide offers concrete recommendations for teachers and schools on how to select, use and evaluate AI tools, emphasizing human oversight, responsible data management and the promotion of equitable and transparent digital practices. It also includes guidance for helping students develop critical, conscious and safe use of AI. Its overarching purpose is to ensure that the integration of AI enhances educational quality and supports the wellbeing of the entire educational community.