Year 7
What generative AI does, what it must not be given, and how to judge a reply. This release includes a full Year 7 unit.
For Years 7 to 9
Teach pupils to direct and judge AI before they are handed the tools.
Think Before AI is a school course in AI literacy. Pupils practise on authored examples. A person sets the task, and a person has the last word.
The Middle Principle
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Human first: direction
The pupil decides the task, the audience and the limits.
- 2
AI accelerates
A tool may speed up a draft. It does not own the work. This course does not call one.
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Human last: judgement
The pupil checks, changes or rejects what comes back.
How a lesson runs
Teachers assign a short mission to a class. Pupils answer checked questions and write their reasoning. Teachers read the writing, give feedback, or ask for another attempt. Badges follow the evidence, not a click.
A Year 7 moment
The chess-club poster sounds official. It also invents a detention and a £10 fee. The mission asks pupils to reject the draft and write the true version.
Try a sampleThe Year 7 to 9 journey
Year 8
Bias, better direction, and checking outputs against a source. Planned next on the same spiral.
Year 9
Harder collaboration: when to refuse a tool, how to credit help, and how to defend a judgement.
Who it is for
Pupils
Short missions, plain language, and a reason to slow down before trusting a fluent answer.
Teachers
A class view, assignments, and the pupil’s own words. Not a score with the thinking hidden.
Leaders
A scheme you can explain to governors: teaching first, tools later, pupil data kept small.
Safeguarding and privacy
Pupils do not need a personal email address. There are no public profiles, rankings or adverts. The course stores names, classes, answers, teacher feedback, badges and certificates. It does not ask for medical, safeguarding or behaviour records.