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Teaching Students to Lead AI, Not Follow It.

First Sight AI is a human-centered AI literacy program for students aged 10–17 — built to move students beyond tool use to trust their own thinking first, and AI second.

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We teach students to question AI — not just use it.

Grounded in the UNESCO AI Competency Framework (2024), our curriculum doesn't treat AI simply as a tool to master. We treat it as a system to be interrogated.

Organized around a rigorous 4-dimension framework—Thinking, Questioning, Deciding, and Leading—our courses ensure that students aren't just consuming algorithmic outputs.


Students experience AI before they analyze it.

We never start with a lecture. Every class opens with something students can actually do — a challenge, a test, an experiment — before we explain the concept behind it.

Students interact directly with real AI systems, finding where they go wrong, who they favour, and what decisions they make invisibly.

The First Sight Curriculum

Built on our 4-dimension framework and fully aligned with UNESCO standards. We offer two age-specific tracks, each consisting of four progressive modules designed to develop complete analytical agency.

AI Explorers (Grades 5–7)

Ages 10–12

Explorers is a discovery-first program. Students this age are natural experimenters — they want to know what breaks, what surprises them, and why. So that's where we start.

Every lesson begins with a real AI system students can interact with directly. They find what it gets wrong before anyone explains why. The concepts come after — not as a lecture, but as the answer to a question the student is already asking.

By the end of the program, students can look at an AI tool and ask the right questions: Who made this? Who is it designed for? What does it get wrong — and for whom?

The 4-Module Journey


  • Module 1: AI and Me
    How does AI learn from me — and what happens when it gets me wrong?
  • Module 2: AI and Us
    Does the AI everyone uses work the same for everyone?
  • Module 3: AI and Systems
    Can AI ever make a fair decision?
  • Module 4: AI and Tomorrow
    What kind of AI world do we want to live in?

What Students Build


  • 🎨 This Is Me · Module 1
  • 🔎 Is This AI Fair? · Module 2
  • ⚖️ My Fairness Test · Module 3
  • 🌍 Present and Share — Capstone · Module 4

Example Activities


  • 🎮 Race the AI — students try to outsmart a drawing recognition model, then investigate why it fails on certain inputs
  • 🤖 Train Your Own AI — build and deliberately break an image classifier to understand what "learning from data" actually means
  • 📱 Recommendation Map — trace why a phone or platform is showing what it's showing, and map who that serves

AI Innovators (Grades 8–12)

Ages 13–17

Innovators is a critical investigation program. Students this age are already using AI every day — often without fully understanding what it's doing or whose interests it serves. This program changes that.

Students examine the AI systems they actually use. They find the assumptions built into them. They look at who the systems were designed for and who gets left out. They form positions — and then they defend them.

By Module 4, they're not just analysing AI. They're building with it, and making deliberate choices about how and why.

The 4-Module Journey


  • Module 1: AI — The Learning Problem
    What has it actually learned — and how do you know?
  • Module 2: AI — Designed for Some
    Who is this system built for — and who does it leave out?
  • Module 3: AI — When It Decides
    When is it acceptable for AI to make the call — and when isn't it?
  • Module 4: AI — What We Build Next
    What should we build — and what should we refuse to build?

What Students Build


  • 🪞 My AI Mirror · Module 1
  • 🔍 Platform Audit · Module 2
  • ⚖️ Fairness Evaluation · Module 3
  • 🎯 Present and Defend — Capstone · Module 4

Example Activities


  • 🎮 Quick Draw Investigation — find the edges of what the model knows, hypothesise why it fails where it does, connect the failure back to training data
  • 🔍 Biased Chatbot Investigation — probe real AI tools for embedded assumptions using controlled prompts
  • 📊 Recommender Audit — reverse-engineer one recommendation you received this week and map what the algorithm inferred about you

What's included in every course.

Every First Sight course is a complete learning experience — not just a class.

Live Sessions

Online classes via Google Meet. No recordings to catch up on — students show up and do the work.

Course Materials

All worksheets, case studies, and investigation tools delivered through Google Classroom.

Post-Class Parent Summary

After every session, parents receive a short written update on what was covered and what to watch for at home.

Portfolio Artifact

Each module ends with a real piece of student work — built across lessons and presented to the group.

Facilitator Feedback

Written feedback on the student's completed portfolio artifact at the end of every module.

Completion Certificate

Issued upon completing all sessions and submitting the portfolio artifact.

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Now Enrolling: AI Innovators

The full intensive for students aged 13–17. Completing the full Thinking, Questioning, Deciding, and Leading curriculum journey.

Summer Batch A

Mon – Fri

Ages 13–17 · Grades 8–12

Time 9:00 AM – 12:00 PM (with break)
Starts May 4, 2026
Ends May 19, 2026
Duration 2.5 weeks · 24 lessons
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Summer Batch B

Mon – Fri

Ages 13–17 · Grades 8–12

Time 1:00 – 4:00 PM (with break)
Starts May 20, 2026
Duration 2.5 weeks · 24 lessons
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Pilot Group · Ongoing

Saturday

Ages 13–17 · Grades 8–12

Time 6:00 – 7:30 PM
Started April 18, 2026
Duration 24 weeks · 24 lessons
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