C5

AI fluency · Grades 6–8

Teach students to
think with AI

AI can generate an answer in seconds. C5 teaches the five human skills students need to decide what that answer is worth — Curiosity, Clarity, Creativity, Critique, and Choice.

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Eight lessons. Forty-five minutes each. Drops into advisory, ELA, STEM, or digital citizenship without becoming another course.

Sample mission · The Pizza Party

Your class has $250 for a pizza party for 40 students. The AI has already made its recommendation.

Choose a plan for the pizza party

Mark a box. Then find out what nobody asked.

The problem

AI can answer the question.
Can the student tell if the answer is any good?

Students already have AI. The risk is not that it gets things wrong — it does, and it says them confidently. The risk is that students stop practicing the thinking that would let them notice.

Every AI answer a student accepts without challenge is a repetition they didn’t get: of questioning, reasoning, evaluating, deciding. Those repetitions are what school is for.

The framework

Five human skills for the AI era

The order matters. You cannot critique an answer to a question you never clarified.

01

Curiosity

Ask beyond the obvious.

“What could I ask that I haven’t thought of yet?”

02

Clarity

Say what you actually mean.

“What exactly am I trying to accomplish?”

03

Creativity

Explore what else is possible.

“What else is possible?”

04

Critique

Challenge the answer.

“Is this actually good, true, complete, and fair?”

05

Choice

Make the final call.

“What do I think?”

The platform

Students learn by deciding

C5 puts students inside missions where they use AI to solve a real problem. The AI is deliberately imperfect: it answers vague questions vaguely, it leaves gaps, and it refuses to make the final call.

Walk through a mission
  1. 01

    Think

    The AI is switched off. What do you already know? What’s missing?

  2. 02

    Ask

    Send the request. Find out how much your first question was worth.

  3. 03

    Explore

    Push past the first answer. Ask for approaches you didn’t think of.

  4. 04

    Challenge

    Find what’s wrong, missing, or quietly assumed.

  5. 05

    Decide

    The AI stops here. This one is yours.

  6. 06

    Explain

    Say why. That sentence is the assessment.

For teachers

AI doesn’t replace the teacher. It gives you better conversations to lead.

C5 shows you how students reasoned — where they leaned on the AI, where they pushed back, and where their thinking is improving. You don’t need to know anything about AI to run it.

What teachers get

For schools

The measurable claim: students get better at this.

Every pilot runs a pre-assessment and a post-assessment on the same rubric. You get growth per competency, per class, per school — including how often students accepted an AI recommendation without challenging it, which should fall.

Implementation and privacy

AI gets a voice.
You get the vote.

Bring C5 to your school as a six-to-eight week pilot: curriculum, platform, assessments, and a report you can take to your board.

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