AI Literacy: Understanding AI & Responsible Tech Use (Middle School) Workbook (NYP Due December 2025)

AI Literacy: Understanding AI & Responsible Tech Use Middle School Workbook

120-Page Student Workbook

Help students become smart, confident, and responsible AI users with the AI Literacy: Understanding AI with a Critical Eye (Middle School) workbook. Designed for ages 11–14, this full-color, student-friendly workbook builds future-ready skills through engaging readings, real-world examples, and hands-on activities.

Students learn how AI works, how it learns, where it appears in everyday life, and how to use AI tools safely and responsibly—all through interactive lessons that make complex ideas simple, relatable, and fun.

What Students Learn

This workbook includes five complete chapters, each with structured activities, examples, prompts, and critical-thinking tasks:

Chapter 1: Understanding AI

Students explore what AI is, how it learns from data, and how it differs from human intelligence.
Activities include:

• Teach the AI: If-Then Coding Rules

• AI or Not? Sorting activity

• Predict Like AI (Recommendation systems)

• Quick Draw! Pattern-recognition challenge

Chapter 2: Patterns, Bias & Training Data

Students discover how AI uses patterns—and how unfair or incomplete data can create bias.
Activities include:

• Echo Chamber Simulation (social media patterns)

• Bias Test Simulation (dog-image training sets)

• AI for Oceans training game (Code.org)

Chapter 3: How AI Thinks (and How We Talk to It)

Students learn about algorithms, filters, and prompt engineering—and how their words influence AI results.
Activities include:

• Build a Filter Bubble

• Make the AI Smarter (prompt-fixing)

• Strategies Lab: Role prompting, step-by-step prompts, constraints

• Ethical Prompting Challenge

Chapter 4: AI in Everyday Life

Students identify how AI supports health, safety, accessibility, learning, and daily routines.
Activities include:

• AI in My Day reflection

• Real-Life AI Hero case studies (healthcare, safety, education, accessibility)

• Smarter Writing with QuillBot

• Design Your Own AI Helper

Chapter 5: AI Safety & Responsibility

Students build digital awareness, privacy habits, and ethical reasoning skills.
Activities include:

• AI Safety Checklist

• Who Should Decide? (Human vs. AI judgment)

• Ethical Dilemmas

• Interland Digital Safety Challenge

Also includes:

• Pre-assessment & post-assessment

• Student goal-setting pages

• Teacher/parent reflection guides

Key Skills Built

• AI literacy & digital awareness

• Critical thinking & pattern recognition

• Ethical reasoning & digital citizenship

• Media literacy & misinformation awareness

• Safe, responsible technology use

Perfect For

• Middle school classrooms (grades 6–8)

• Advisory, SEL, or digital citizenship programs

• STEM, technology, media literacy, or enrichment courses

• Independent learning or homeschool environments

Why Educators Love It

• Zero-prep, ready-to-use student workbook

• Real-world examples students instantly connect with

• Thoughtful activities grounded in current AI tools

• Builds essential human skills AI cannot replace