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New NSF-backed project aims to help middle schoolers decide what to trust in the age of AI

A new U.S. National Science Foundation-backed project will help middle schoolers build a skill they increasingly need: the ability to determine what information to trust.

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The University of Denver and The Tech Interactive have received a $50,000 planning award through the NSF FINDERS FOUNDRY program for a project that aims to help middle schoolers build a skill they increasingly need: the ability to determine what information to trust.

The University of Denver and The Tech Interactive have received a $50,000 planning award through the NSF FINDERS FOUNDRY program for a project that aims to help middle schoolers build a skill they increasingly need: the ability to determine what information to trust.

The team will co-design a tool to help students independently and critically evaluate AI-generated information.

The project builds on an existing collaboration between Dr. Pilyoung Kim and The Tech, where she served as a key advisor, developing AI literacy lessons for the organization’s National AI Literacy Day activations.

The project aims to create a tool that reflects how students actually encounter AI-generated information at school, at home, and in daily life.

The goal is to help students build agency, not fear, as they grow up in an AI-driven world.

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The project aims to create a tool that reflects how students actually encounter AI-generated information at school, at home, and in daily life. The goal is to help students build agency, not fear, as they grow up in an AI-driven world.

The project aims to create a tool that reflects how students actually encounter AI-generated information at school, at home, and in daily life.

The goal is to help students build agency, not fear, as they grow up in an AI-driven world.

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The project will co-design a tool to help students independently and critically evaluate AI-generated information.

The project will co-design a tool to help students independently and critically evaluate AI-generated information.

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