The European project AI-HED – Artificial Intelligence in Higher Education Teaching and Learning, of which ESCS is a member, recently highlighted a pedagogical innovation on its LinkedIn: the AI Tools Heatmap.

This tool aims to rethink teaching with Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Higher Education, offering a clear visualisation of how different AI-based tools can support digital competences and cognitive levels of learning.

The Heatmap organises tools according to two key frameworks:
DigComp 2.2: assesses digital competences, from information literacy to problem-solving;
Bloom’s Taxonomy: analyses cognitive levels, from remembering to creating.

According to the project, mapping AI tools is not only about organising the present, but also anticipating the future of education. In a context of rapid technological change, the real advantage lies not in knowing more tools, but in understanding how, when, and why to integrate them pedagogically.

AI-HED encourages lecturers and institutions to explore, experiment with, and combine AI tools, promoting an approach in which students learn to think with AI, rather than simply use it.

Find out more about the Heatmap and explore AI tools here.

Text by the ESCS Communication Service (SCom).