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Practical AI literacy for the classroom

Ready-to-use resources to develop AI skills with curiosity and critical thinking. Designed for European and international schools, mapped competence by competence to the new EU/OECD AI Literacy Framework. Made by Diana - an IB teacher, cybersecurity & compliance lead, and AI builder.

Young learners use paper, scissors and questions. They need no screens or accounts, and share no student data.

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The Guesser Detectives field sheet: three columns headed Fixed, Guesser and Needs investigating, with an Investigation box underneath.
Two children in safety goggles building a cardboard robot from cereal boxes, tubes and bottle caps at a workbench.
The helper robot design sheet: boxes for the robot's name and job, who it helps, what it needs to know, the never-tell box, and a space to draw it.

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Complete classroom packs include what to say, what students will do with it, what to do when the room goes sideways, and the printables. Every card says whether you can open it today or the month it arrives. Free lessons stay free; each classroom pack is bought once, and several can go in one basket.

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Unplugged Paper, stories and questions. No screens, accounts or student data.

Free Ages 6–11 Unplugged Story lesson

Robot in the Box

A story to read aloud, with questions about how a machine guesses from examples. This free lesson comes from the paid No Screens Needed classroom pack.

AILit: Engage 2 · UNESCO: Understand Open free →
Ages 6–11 Unplugged Classroom pack

No Screens Needed

Four story and discussion lessons about how AI learns, guesses and follows instructions, with twelve printable sheets. Includes Robot in the Box.

AILit: Engage 2 · Manage 1 · UNESCO: Understand
Ages 6–8 Unplugged Classroom pack

Guessers and Impostors

Five sessions. A robot shop where machines are paid in coins and in finding out, a spotting safari that lasts all term, a robot who learns wrong in front of the class, and a charter the children write and sign. Five printables, no screens.

AILit: Engage 1–2 · Manage 1 · UNESCO: Understand What is in it →
Coming soon Ages 9–11 Unplugged Classroom pack

The Fact-Checkers’ League

Checking a confident answer against something else, as a habit rather than a rule.

AILit: Engage 3–4 · Manage 3 Coming soon
Coming soon Ages 12–14 Classroom pack

Who Does It Think You Are?

Recommendation systems, personalisation and the profile a feed builds from a student’s choices.

AILit: Engage 2, 4, 7 · Manage 2 Coming soon
Coming soon Ages 15–18 Classroom pack

Answerable

Evidence, authorship and how to check a claim. For TOK and critical-thinking lessons.

AILit: Engage 3, 7 · Manage 1, 3 Coming soon

No cards in this pile yet. More resources arrive through the summer.

Learn it yourself

Two self-paced courses for teachers cover judging and using any AI tool in the work you already do, and setting up Claude safely from the first chat to the first agent. Each ends with a certificate of completion.

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The best first AI lesson has no AI in it.

The foundations of AI literacy can be shown with a story, some cards and a pencil: machines that guess from patterns, sound confident when wrong, learn whatever their examples teach them, and follow words instead of meaning. None of that needs a screen. All of it needs a conversation.

Most AI tools set their minimum age at 13 or higher, and European data protection law takes children's consent seriously. Resources that assume eight-year-olds have chatbot accounts are not being honest with you.

Our resources for young learners use paper, stories and discussion. They collect no student data and require no accounts.

The AILit Framework (EU/OECD, June 2026) defines AI literacy in 4 domains and 19 competences; UNESCO's AI Competency Framework for Students (2024) is the global reference, with the human-centred mindset first among its four aspects. Every resource here names the AILit competences it builds and the UNESCO blocks it covers, so your curriculum statement can cite either, or both.

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