Why AI literacy — and why inside your lessons
Your students already use AI. The question is whether they'll use it thinkingly. You don't need a new subject to teach that — you need two minutes at the right moment in the lesson you were already going to teach.
Students already use AI
Whatever the school rules say, AI is already in students' daily lives — search, homework, translation, chat. The question is not whether they use it, but whether they use it thinkingly.
Fluent is not the same as true
Generative AI answers by predicting the next word, so an answer can be perfectly fluent, confident — and wrong. Students who have never practised doubting AI are the ones most likely to swallow it whole.
AI literacy is a habit of mind, not a technical skill
It isn't coding. It's judgement: when to trust, when to verify, when not to use AI at all. Which is exactly the kind of thinking every subject teacher already teaches.
Why weave it into existing lessons?
There is no room in the timetable
Hong Kong's school day is already full. A new "AI subject" is unrealistic — but two minutes inside an existing lesson is something every teacher can find.
Learning transfers when it happens in context
Discovering that AI writes beautifully but got the facts wrong inside a Chinese lesson beats hearing about "AI limitations" in a computer lesson. Literacy grows in real subject contexts.
You don't need to be an AI expert
Every moment ships with a one-line teacher background note on why AI behaves this way. You teach what you're best at — questioning and guiding thinking. The AI knowledge is packaged for you.
The five strands
Every moment is tagged with the strand of AI literacy it builds. Across a term, the tags show your class's coverage.
How AI actually works — prediction, training data, why it makes things up
Prompting, iterating, AI as thinking partner — and when not to use it
Spotting hallucinations, checking sources, healthy scepticism
Bias, privacy, personal data, deepfakes and misinformation
Academic honesty, over-reliance, and what stays human
Aligned with where education is going
- UNESCO: Its AI Competency Framework for Students (2024) puts human-centred mindset and AI ethics before technical skill — the same ordering as our five strands. Read the framework ↗
- Hong Kong EDB: Junior secondary schools now teach a dedicated AI curriculum module, and information literacy runs through multiple curriculum documents. This tool carries those goals into everyday subjects at upper primary and junior secondary — not just ICT lessons. edb.gov.hk ↗
- Values education: The AI & me strand maps directly onto honesty, responsibility and empathy — putting the academic-integrity conversation where homework actually happens.
Privacy and trust
No sign-up, no accounts, nothing you type is stored. Your lesson details are used once — sent to the AI model (DeepSeek) to generate that plan, then discarded.
Please don't put student names or identifying details in your lesson outline — the tool doesn't need them and shouldn't receive them. Modelling that habit is itself the lesson.
About YanSi (言思)
YanSi is the Chu Bong Foo Culture Foundation's free AI-literacy initiative: learning to think with AI, not letting AI think for you. Working with AI well should never depend on what a family can afford. This planner sits alongside YanSi Chat and the children's game Nova's AI Adventure. cbfhk.org/yansi ↗
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