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AI AwareBeing a Smart AI User lesson

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Step 3 of 7Activity10 min

Prompt and check

This game is unplugged or led by your grown-up. Learners do not type into an AI tool.

Your grown-up is the AI. Give them a fuzzy prompt, like “Draw an animal.” Your grown-up draws anything at all.

Now try: “Draw a happy cat in a red hat.” Is the drawing closer?

Next, your grown-up gives an “AI answer” to a question. Find a book that checks it. Was the answer right?

Think about it

Which worked better, the fuzzy prompt or the clear one? Why?

Level up (grades 3-5)Optional

Older students practiced math with a chatbot. When it was taken away, they did worse on a test. Students whose chatbot gave hints mostly did not. Why might hints help more?

Sources1 link behind the facts on this page
  1. High school students practicing math with GPT-4 (Bastani et al., PNAS, 2025)