AI Literacy & Critical Thinking

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A comprehensive collection of educational materials developed by klicksafe to support media literacy, digital safety, critical thinking, democratic participation, and responsible use of digital technologies. The collection includes teaching materials, worksheets, quizzes, videos, audio resources, apps, posters, and practical activities for educators, young people, parents, and schools. For example: AI and Me campaign cards: Easy-to-use […]

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A comprehensive collection of educational materials developed by klicksafe to support media literacy, digital safety, critical thinking, democratic participation, and responsible use of digital technologies. The collection includes teaching materials, worksheets, quizzes, videos, audio resources, apps, posters, and practical activities for educators, young people, parents, and schools.

For example:

  • AI and Me campaign cards: Easy-to-use reflection cards for young people about AI and emotional relationships. They cover comfort from AI, feelings toward AI, and AI friendship, while encouraging critical reflection and awareness of risks and support options.
  • Parent guide: Explains AI chatbots and AI companions, their emotional influence on young people, and how parents can respond. Includes 10 practical tips, conversation starters, and an AI glossary.
  • AI & sustainability interview: Discusses AI’s environmental impact, its potential benefits, and questions around responsible and sustainable AI use.
  • AI in education interview: Explores how AI is changing teaching and learning, including opportunities such as new learning tools alongside pedagogical and ethical concerns.
  • AI in schools podcast: Looks at AI in education, including personalized learning and administrative help, as well as risks such as surveillance, dependency, and unfairness.
  • AI & relationships podcast: Examines how AI companions, algorithms, and social media are changing intimacy, trust, communication, and human relationships.
  • Data literacy podcast: Explains why understanding and evaluating data is important for democratic participation and personal autonomy, and how data literacy can be developed.
  • Fake news podcast: Explores misinformation and fake news, how they spread, their effects on democracy and public opinion, and ways to evaluate online information critically.
  • Democracy & education podcast: Discusses whether democratic skills can be learned and how schools, civic education, and media literacy can encourage participation and democratic competence.

Why it matters for ENACT-AI

Highly relevant to AI literacy and critical digital citizenship. The collection includes resources addressing generative AI, the reliability of ChatGPT, deepfakes, misinformation, fake news, online manipulation, digital media literacy, and democracy. It supports young people in developing the skills needed to critically assess digital content, understand the opportunities and risks of AI and online media, verify information, and participate responsibly in digital society.

Learning outcomes

Learners can develop critical media literacy skills, identify misinformation and manipulation techniques, evaluate the reliability of digital information, understand basic opportunities and risks associated with artificial intelligence, recognise deepfakes and misleading online content, reflect on their own digital behaviour, understand the relationship between media and democracy, and make safer and more responsible decisions online.

Suggested activity

Select one AI or misinformation-related resource from the klicksafe collection, such as a resource about the reliability of ChatGPT, AI in everyday school life, deepfakes, or fake news. Ask learners to analyse several examples of AI-generated or potentially misleading content, verify the information using independent and reliable sources, identify possible manipulation techniques, and discuss how such content could influence opinions, behaviour, or democratic participation.