AI Suggested Resources
Resource 1: The HUMANS Framework
The State Chancellor's Office has developed the HUMANS framework for AI governance across the California Community Colleges. The State Chancellor’s Office released a memo outlining core competencies for AI literacy across the California Community Colleges in February 2026. They are adopting the PEOPLE acronym to encompass these core competencies:
P – Prompt with Purpose: Learn to communicate effectively with AI tools by crafting clear, intentional prompts that yield useful, accurate, bounded, and relevant responses and actions.
E – Ensure Ethics: Understand and apply ethical principles, institutional policies, and societal considerations when using all forms of AI, including issues of data privacy, bias, intellectual property, equity, accessibility, and culturally responsive use of AI tools.
O – Observe and Verify: Cultivate critical thinking, factchecking and outcome-verification habits to identify inaccuracies, rogue behavior, hallucinations, or bias in AI-generated content or actions.
P – Processor, not Person: Recognize that AI is a tool, not a sentient being. Avoid anthropomorphizing AI agents and bots and maintain a clear understanding of their limitations and tendencies.
L – Learn the Fundamentals: Develop a working knowledge of how AI operates, including generative and agentic AI systems, how they use data, and what they are capable of, including concepts like training data, large language models (LLMs), and probabilistic outputs.
E – Evolve Continuously: Stay informed about emerging tools, capabilities, and risks. AI is evolving rapidly, and literacy requires ongoing learning and adaptation.
Resource 2: Evaluating AI Tools
The Academic Senate for the California Community Colleges (ASCCC) also provides this framework for evaluating the effectiveness of AI: Evaluating Artificial Intelligence (AI) Tools in an Academic Setting
Resource 3: Upcoming AI-Related Events
Foothill College has curated an AI hub with a wealth of resources and information about upcoming AI-related events.
You may request to be added to the AI Hub Canvas site.
Resource 4: Google AI Tools Trainings
The California Community Colleges Digital Center hosts training sessions for faculty and staff on Google AI Tools. Register on the Digital Center's Google for Education site.