AI Literacy Module for Youth

Lesson 4: Hands-on AI Creation

Before you start the lesson, make sure to read through the lesson overview and the lesson preparation. The Facilitator Guide can also help you prepare.

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Part 1: Generate Text Using Meta AI

Activity

Now we’re going to look at how Meta AI can help with writing. This is about using AI to enhance your writing, generate new ideas, and explore different ways of saying the same thing.

What is Meta AI?

Meta AI is an AI-powered digital assistant that helps users with everyday tasks. It is available within apps like Facebook, WhatsApp, Messenger, and Instagram, and can also be used on its own. Powered by Llama, Meta's language model, is designed to understand what people say and respond in a useful way. Users ask questions, write content, create images, or get help with everyday tasks.

Think of Meta AI as a creative assistant. You bring the idea, the audience, and the tone, the AI helps you shape it.

HIGH-CONNECTIVITY DEMONSTRATION

Live Idea Brainstorming (Collaborative):

Before we type anything, let’s agree on a writing task together. For example, we could create headlines for a blog post about digital learning.

Guide participants to suggest:

• Who is this written for? (students, teachers, parents, the public)
• What’s the main message?
• What tone should it have? (fun, informative, inspiring)

Notice how answering these questions helps us write a better prompt.

Demonstration:

• Type the agreed prompt into Meta AI
• Generate the text live
• Read a few outputs aloud
• Ask participants which ones they like and why

Refinement:

Let’s improve the result by refining the prompt — maybe changing the tone, the audience, or the format.

• Edit the prompt slightly
• Regenerate the text
• Compare the new output to the first version

Wrap-Up Message:

Good AI writing starts with clear thinking. The more specific you are about audience, tone, and purpose, the more useful the output becomes — and you can always edit, remix, or try again.

LOW-CONNECTIVITY VERSION

Pre-prepared AI Poems Activity:

I have two poems that AI wrote about African schools. Your job is to improve them by adding real student voices and local expressions.

• Example Pre-generated Poem:

At New Age High, in Cape Town’s domain,

Industrious youth their goals attain.

With fervent pride their hearts avow,

Where eminent titans once did endow.

• Example Pre-generated Poem 2:

At New Age High in Cape Town,

We grind all day, no time to clown.

Proud to rep where great men rose,

Their footsteps guide us as we grow.

Student Task:

Make this sound like how you and your friends actually talk. Add some local expressions from your country, fix anything that sounds too formal.

Part 2: Create Images Using Meta AI

Activity

Now we’re going to use Meta AI to create an image from our ideas. Think of yourselves as the directors, and you’re telling the AI what to create.

HIGH-CONNECTIVITY DEMONSTRATION

Live Prompt Building (Collaborative):

Let’s imagine this together: Generate an image of students on a school trip exploring a science museum.
Before I submit the prompt, what details should we add to make this image more personal and interesting?”

Guide participant suggestions toward:

• What are the students wearing?
• Is there a school teacher with the students?
• Is there a museum guide leading the students through the museum?
• What tools, machines, or inventions are in the museum?
• What’s the overall mood or style of the image?

As we add more detail, notice how the prompt becomes clearer and more powerful.

Demonstration:

• Open Meta AI on a phone or computer
• Type the prompt live into Meta AI
• Generate the image
• Show the result and briefly reflect on how the details shaped the outcome

AI works best when you’re specific. The clearer your vision, the better the result, and you can always refine and try again.

Additional note to participants:

Remember to state that any content generated using AI, particularly content that resembles or depicts real people, is AI-generated when it is shared publicly.

LOW-CONNECTIVITY ALTERNATIVE

AI Image Analysis Activity:

• Show 4-5 printed AI-generated images of African students from different countries
• Students identify: "What looks realistic? What seems 'off'? What story does this image tell?"
• Create collaborative "AI art prompt" on paper: "If you could ask AI to draw anything about your life in this country, what would it be?

Part 3: Create Videos with Text Using Meta AI

Activity

Next, we’re going to explore how AI can generate short videos using only text. This means we don’t upload images or footage, we simply describe what we want to see, and the AI creates a video clip from that description.

Once again, I want you to think like directors. You’ll decide what the scene looks like, what’s happening, and what the overall feeling of the video should be.

HIGH-CONNECTIVITY DEMONSTRATION

Live Prompt Building (Collaborative):

Start with a simple prompt: Generate a short video of a city market. Before we generate it, what details should we add to help the AI understand the scene better?

Guide participant input toward:

• What type of market is it? (street market, open-air, modern, traditional)
• Where is it located? (city center, neighborhood street, coastal town)
• Time of day (morning, afternoon, evening)
• Who is in the scene? (vendors, shoppers, families, tourists)
• What actions are happening? (people walking, selling goods, cooking food)

As we add these details, notice how the prompt becomes more specific and visual, allowing you to generate an output that closely matches your imagination.

Demonstration:

• Type the final prompt into the video generation tool
• Generate the short video
• Play the video for the group
• Briefly point out how specific words influenced movement, atmosphere, and realism

Wrap-Up Message:

AI video generation works best when you describe movement, action, and atmosphere. Even short prompts can produce interesting results, and you can always improve the video by refining your description and trying again.

Additional note to participants:

Remember to state that any content generated using AI, particularly content that resembles or depicts real people, is AI-generated when it is shared publicly.

Part 4: Sharing & Reflection

Let's share what we created! Who wants to read the poem we made together? What surprised you about working with AI?

Guided Discussion Questions:

• Was the AI creative, or were we the creative ones?
• What did AI do well? What did it miss?
• How might you use AI for school projects appropriately?

Key Teaching Moment:

Notice how AI needed OUR ideas, OUR cultural knowledge, and OUR creativity to make something meaningful. AI amplifies human creativity - it doesn't replace it.

Transition

Creating with AI is fun, but there are important things we need to know about using it responsibly...

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