AI and You Grades 9 to 12
Review a proposed AI study helper the way the pros do: how it learns, where it fails, who it could harm, and who stays in charge.
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- Grade
- Grades 9 to 12
- Length
- 12 weeks
- Pace
- 6 short lessons a week, about 20 minutes each
- Price
- Free, every week
About this course
AI and You Grades 9 to 12 is a 12-week AI literacy elective for high schoolers. Comet, Wren and Nova join a school panel reviewing SH-1, a proposed AI study helper. Students train and run a tiny next-word model by hand, measure a model on a test set, and find where it is biased or confidently wrong. They map privacy, safety and security risks such as prompt injection and data poisoning, weigh synthetic media and environmental costs, and decide where humans must stay in charge. Each Friday meets the people who build, test and govern AI. The course ends with a paper model card, a risk register and a go-or-no-go recommendation. It practices CSTA Level 3A and 3B standards. No student ever uses a real AI tool in the course. 100% free, start to finish.
Kids will
- Explain how a model is trained and how a generative model predicts the next word
- Measure a model on a test set and read its errors
- Find harmful bias and explain why fairness is hard to measure
- Name privacy, safety and security risks such as prompt injection and data poisoning
- Weigh synthetic media, environmental cost and supply chain questions
- Decide where humans stay in charge and write a model card and risk review
The 12 weeks
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Week 1
What Is SH-1, Really?
An AI study helper arrives, and the crew asks what kind of system it is
CSTA 3B-AP-08
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Week 2
The Lifecycle and Its People
Who designs, builds, deploys, runs and checks SH-1, and how they manage risk
CSTA 3B-AP-08
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Week 3
How Models Learn
The crew trains Tiny Text by hand to see how training data becomes predictions
CSTA 3A-DA-12
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Week 4
How Generative Models Write
One word at a time, smooth but not always true
CSTA 3B-DA-07
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Week 5
Measuring a Model
The right test, the right numbers
CSTA 3B-DA-05
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Week 6
Bias, Fairness and Sameness
Does SH-1 serve every student equally well?
CSTA 3A-IC-25
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Week 7
Privacy in the Machine
What a question log reveals
CSTA 3A-IC-29
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Week 8
Safety and Security
Planted notes, poisoned cards and paper red teams
CSTA 3B-IC-25
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Week 9
Real, Fake and Whose?
Information integrity, provenance and intellectual property
CSTA 3A-IC-28
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Week 10
Footprint and Supply Chain
What SH-1 depends on, and who can use it
CSTA 3B-IC-26
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Week 11
Humans in Charge
Who has the final say, and how much to trust
CSTA 3B-IC-25
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Week 12
People of AI and the Final Review
Who does the work of AI, and should Harbor Point pilot SH-1?
CSTA 3B-AP-08
Standards practiced. CSTA: 3A-DA-12, 3A-IC-24, 3A-IC-25, 3A-IC-28, 3A-IC-29, 3A-IC-30, 3B-AP-08, 3B-DA-05, 3B-DA-06, 3B-DA-07, 3B-IC-25, 3B-IC-26. Each week has short lessons Monday to Friday, with an unplugged Explorer Lab on Wednesday and a family Explorer Quest on Saturday.
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