10 Practical Activities To Embed AI Literacy In Your School

10 Practical Activities to Embed AI Literacy in Your School Today is a concise, practice-informed and research-led guide by Mark Anderson, designed to help schools begin or deepen their journey into responsible and inclusive AI education.

Each of the ten activities is grounded in the findings of the Alan Turing Institute’s 2024 paper Understanding the Impacts of Generative AI Use on Children. The guide takes seriously the voices of young people in the research, highlighting their concerns around ethics, misinformation, fairness, environmental impact, and the need for support in navigating a rapidly changing technological world.

The activities are varied, practical, and accessible to real schools with real constraints. They include strategic leadership initiatives such as assessment redesign and policy co-creation, alongside pupil-facing programmes like critical thinking challenges, student-led AI councils, and creative clubs. Importantly, several activities foreground equity and inclusion, such as the Digital Equity Audit and SEN-focused AI support, reflecting both research insights and lived experience from Mark’s work across UK schools and trusts.

Whether you're a classroom teacher, senior leader, or digital lead, the guide offers a menu of meaningful, adaptable starting points that prioritise pedagogy, integrity, and pupil voice over novelty or gimmick. It recognises that AI literacy must sit at the intersection of curriculum, safeguarding, staff development, and student wellbeing—and offers concrete steps to make that integration a reality.

For those seeking to act on the research with clarity and care, this is a resource to use, share, and build from.