Free K–8 lessons to prepare students for life, online and off

How does social media shape the way we see ourselves and others?

How are AI chatbots designed to make you feel like “they” get you?

How does AI earn trust, and how can that change the way you use it?

Who is really in control of what you buy online?

Students train their own image recognition model to see how the data an AI learns from shapes what it can do, and how well it can do it.

Students use Mike Caulfield’s SIFT method to investigate an AI-written article, and learn to treat AI as a tool that can help them verify a claim, just not one they can take at its word.

Students work out the math behind the virtual price of a single loot box to uncover the real dollar cost hidden inside.

Students evaluate their school’s real AI policy and consider recommendations to strengthen it in support of student learning.

Students explore why using someone’s likeness without their permission violates consent, and why the harm is real even when the image isn’t.

Students are introduced to critical ignoring, a deliberate strategy for managing attention in an information-rich world.

Teens interview each other about their current tech habits, reflect on their own habits, and hear how others approach their tech habits.

Students search for themselves online, discover what’s already out there, and learn to use the WWW framework (Who, Why, What) to evaluate their digital privacy and protect it.

Students build a way of thinking about their own choices: not whether to use AI or not, but how to make that call deliberately.

When does looking up health information stop being helpful and start getting in the way of your well-being?

Students sort a set of everyday online behaviors by how harmful they are, discover they might not be able to easily agree, and dig into why.

When something’s wrong online, how do you decide the best way to step in?

What are my values, and how do media and tech impact them?

Help students recognize common thinking traps in their digital lives and practice strategies for countering them.

This lesson helps students learn about design tricks that companies use and consider how features like notifications, infinite scroll, and autoplay can impact their well-being.