Meet your AI assistant — and its limits
AI is the most powerful tool of your generation. Learning to use it wisely is a superpower.
Teacher asks an AI a question live — one where it gets something confidently wrong (e.g. a local fact). Class erupts. "This is your new tool. Let's learn to use it properly."
Structured exploration via the Teacher AI Station (Year 8 students are under 13, so AI is teacher-mediated — students write prompts and submit them; the teacher runs the class's prompts through the AI and returns the responses to evaluate). Four mini-challenges, written up in the "AI Log" (template provided): (1) Write a prompt asking it to explain a topic they find confusing in school — rate the returned explanation 1-5. (2) Ask it to write a poem about their hobby — then edit the returned poem to make it actually theirs. (3) Ask a local fact they know the answer to — catch it if the response is wrong. (4) Ask it to help plan a birthday party — note what's useful and what's wrong. Students submit prompts through the lesson assignment and never use a live AI directly.
Share the best "AI got it wrong" moment. Build a class list of things AI is bad at.
This IS the AI lesson — the foundation for all future AI work. Because Year 8 students are under 13, every interaction is teacher-mediated: students write prompts, the teacher runs them through the AI, and students evaluate the responses. You learn everything about using AI without ever using a live AI service yourself.
Completed AI Log with 4 mini-challenges and honest evaluations
Plan a prompt you would use to help you revise for one upcoming test. Write an "AI use statement": what would you ask, what might be useful, what would you need to check or change?
Pre-written prompts on a card — students just need to run them and evaluate
Research how a large language model works. Draw a diagram explaining it to a Year 7 student.
Year 8 students are under 13 and must NOT use live AI tools directly. This lesson uses the Teacher AI Station: create an "AI Task" assignment for your class (Teacher dashboard → class → New assignment), students submit their prompts, and you batch-run them through the AI with "Run all pending through AI". You may also demonstrate AI live on the projector. Do not skip the safety rules — they matter.