Working words, used the same way on every HNK page
This glossary exists so a family and a teacher are not arguing about “AI literacy” with two dictionaries. Each term is a practice word. None is a product name. If a student cannot define a term without a slogan, circle it and return to the claim card on the guide.
AI literacy
The ability to explain what a technical system is doing, what it depends on, what it cannot know, and what a human still decides. At HNK this is a student practice, not a product skill.
Human knowledge
The understanding a student can still produce when the interface is closed. If the knowledge disappears when the model stops talking, it was not yet the student's.
Explanation card
A short human-language account of an idea, written before or beside any tool use, that a classmate could mark.
Knowledge map
A drawing of dependencies, borrowed claims, and empty nodes. HNK maps are made before heavy model use.
Limitation note
A sentence that states what the work cannot show. Fluent outputs without limitation notes are treated as unfinished literacy.
Teach-back
The student explains the idea to another person without reading generated text. Teach-back is the public test of private understanding.
Responsible use
Practiced refusals: privacy, consent, source honesty, and not sending other people's data into tools.
Generated fluency
Text or images that sound or look finished while remaining unowned by the student. Fluency is not evidence.
Boundary list
The uses a student will not make of a system, written in advance of temptation.
Source note
A record of where a claim came from, including when the source is a model and therefore not a source.
Fit conversation
The HNK apply discussion: what the student cannot yet explain, and which format practices that gap.
Showcase
A public teach-back. If it hides limits, it is theater.
Module
A school-sized unit with one explanation target, one artifact, and one responsible-use rule.
Reviewer
A person who inspects student thinking and is forbidden to complete the work.
STEM knowledge practice
Repeated work that changes what a student can say about a technical idea, not a pile of apps.
Closed-interface test
Asking the student to speak while the tool is off. Families can run this test at a table.
Draft history
Kept versions of explanations. HNK portfolios prefer drafts to galleries.
Unnecessary data
Personal detail that does not help a literacy conversation and should not be collected.