In June 2026, the OECD and the European Commission released a new AI literacy framework for primary and secondary schools, and it is being applauded across education. This episode looks at what the applause skips.

The framework feeds the international assessment that shapes national curricula through the end of the decade, and it names what a generation should be able to do with AI. What it does not do is teach the method. It tells students to check their own work and set their own checkpoints, and it never supplies a procedure or a standard for how. Sixty years of learning science places durable learning in the method of use, in deliberate friction and in support that is withdrawn so the learner takes over the capability. Strip that out and checking the work becomes trusting the tool.

The same gap runs through accountability. In the  ...