Who this page is for
This page is a planning object for a school coordinator, club adviser, or family who has already decided that AI literacy means a checkable explanation. It is not a student worksheet. Students should use the explanation-before-tools note. Families comparing vendors should use the evaluation note. This URL stays because earlier drafts filled it with eight “Operational checklist” blocks that differed only by the digit in the heading. That pattern is gone. The weeks below differ by job.
A semester here means a sixteen-week stretch a school already owns. HNK does not publish a start date, a fee, or a cohort size on this page. Those facts, if they exist for a given group, are confirmed after info@hnk.org.
The four jobs
Weeks 1–4 train noticing: the student stops when a sentence is fluent and still empty. Weeks 5–8 train explaining: a claim, a source, a limit, and a remaining human duty on one card. Weeks 9–12 train refusing: privacy, other people’s data, and honesty about generation. Weeks 13–16 transfer the habit into a STEM topic the student already studies. Each job has its own artifact. If a school skips noticing and jumps to a tool demo, the later weeks become theater.
Weeks 1–4 — noticing (owner: the student)
Deliverable: a limitation log with at least eight dated entries. Each entry names one generated sentence, one word the student cannot define without a slogan, and one thing the model cannot know from the prompt. Failure mode: a screenshot gallery with no human sentence. Review question: can the student point to a line and say what would make it false?
Classroom move: close the laptop for ten minutes after any generation. The student writes the sentence again from memory. If the rewrite collapses, the original was not understood. Mentors may not type the rewrite.
Weeks 5–8 — explaining (owner: a classmate marker)
Deliverable: four explanation cards. Each card has four fields — claim, source, limit, human duty — plus a teach-back recorded by a classmate who did not write the card. Failure mode: a long generated essay pasted under a heading. Review question: can a second reader mark the card without asking the author to “just explain it again”?
Classroom move: swap cards. The marker circles decorative words. The author revises. Keep the marked copy in the folder. Progress is a shorter card that still survives the swap, not a prettier export.
Weeks 9–12 — refusing (owner: the adult who holds the assignment)
Deliverable: a responsible-use boundary list tied to one actual task, not a poster of virtues. Name what must not be pasted, what must be labeled as generated, and who is still responsible after a fluent answer. Failure mode: a generic ethics slide with no decision. Review question: did a student refuse a convenient paste this month, and is that refusal in the folder?
Classroom move: one red-team hour. Give a tempting shortcut (paste a classmate’s draft, upload a family document, claim certainty the map does not support). The assessed work is the refusal note, not the completed shortcut.
Weeks 13–16 — transferring (owner: the STEM teacher of record)
Deliverable: one explanation of a concept already on the school’s syllabus — a circuit, a proof step, a data claim — produced with the interface closed, then compared with any generated draft the student later requests. Failure mode: a “AI project” that has no home in an existing subject. Review question: would the STEM teacher accept the explanation if no model had been mentioned?
End-of-term folder: limitation log, four cards, one refusal note, one transferred explanation, a one-page revision log. No vendor certificate is required. HNK will not invent a badge to fill this paragraph.
What a coordinator should not copy from this page
Do not copy a 16-week calendar into a public brochure as if HNK had audited the school. Do not add invented hours, partner names, or “AI literacy credits.” Use the four jobs as a conversation with the six tracks. If the school cannot name a marker for the explanation cards, the semester is not ready.
This page is method writing from HNK Institute. It describes a teaching practice. It does not report measured learning gains, partner logos, enrollment dates, or awards. Owner confirmation on 2026-10-04 covers that the practice operates and that info@hnk.org exists; it does not cover any number on this page because this page publishes none.