Children are growing up with AI in search engines, learning tools, games, apps, image generators, chatbots, and recommendation systems. AI literacy helps them use these tools safely, honestly, creatively, and critically.

AI can support learning by explaining ideas, giving feedback, generating examples, and helping with practice. However, it can also weaken learning if students use it to avoid thinking, checking, reading, writing, or solving problems for themselves.

Yes. AI can give answers that sound confident but are incorrect, incomplete, outdated, biased, or made up. Children need to learn that AI output should be checked against reliable sources, not accepted automatically.

AI bias happens when an AI system produces unfair, narrow, or misleading results because of the data it was trained on, the way it was designed, or the way people use it. AI reflects human choices and limitations.

Students should know that AI is a tool, not a thinking replacement. They should protect private information, check important answers, follow school rules, be honest about AI assistance, and use AI to support their own learning.

Children can use AI for homework when it is allowed, transparent, and used to support understanding. It should help them brainstorm, practise, revise, or clarify ideas, not secretly complete the work for them.

Teachers can discuss ethical AI use by asking when AI support is helpful, when it becomes cheating, what should be disclosed, how sources should be checked, and how students can remain responsible for their own thinking.

AI can support creativity by offering prompts, examples, images, structures, and alternative ideas. But children also need to develop their own imagination, voice, judgement, effort, and originality rather than letting AI do all the creative work.

Stories can turn AI from an abstract technology into a character, system, mystery, or challenge. Through fiction, children can explore AI’s benefits, risks, ethics, mistakes, and influence in a way that feels engaging rather than instructional.