Beyond Tool Adoption: A Practical Five-Stage Developmental Continuum for AI Literacy in Higher Education 文章

arXiv:2606.00038v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Artificial intelligence (AI) literacy is increasingly recognized as a foundational competency for all university graduates. Yet students' engagement with AI tools often clusters at two problematic extremes: avoidance driven by fear, mistrust, ethical concern, or lack of access, and uncritical reliance that produces fluent output while masking misunderstanding. Existing AI literacy frameworks provide valuable competency definitions, but most offer limited guidance for diagnosing where learners begin and how they progress toward responsible, critical engagement. This paper proposes a five-stage AI Literacy Continuum -- 1) Not Yet Engaged, 2) Uncritical Use, 3) Informed Use, 4) Critical Evaluation, and 5) Improvement -- that describes developmental orientations toward AI use in higher education.