SPEAK with AI

A framework to support students to engage critically and creatively with AI

SSET PURPOSE
  • •What is my purpose for using AI in this task?
  • •What do I already know?
  • •Do I need to be a centaur or cyborg?
  • •How will AI enhance understanding or creativity?
  • •Purpose Checker
  • •AI Decision Journal
PPROMPT
  • •Formulate clear, contextualised, and cognitively demanding prompts
  • •Provide relevant background information or constraints to guide the AI's reasoning.
  • •Iterate on prompts to refine precision, depth, and tone.
  • •Bloom's Upgrades
  • •Coach, not Crutch
  • •Probing questions
EEVALUATE
  • •Assess the accuracy, credibility, and relevance of information produced.
  • •Identify potential bias, stereotyping, or omissions
  • •Cross-check AI information with credible sources.
  • •Cross-Checker
  • •Trust but Verify
  • •Bias Audit
  • •AI Depth-check
AAPPLY
  • •Decide how to incorporate insights from AI into your own reasoning or draft.
  • •Reflect on what further inquiry or clarification might deepen understanding.
  • •Make it personal
  • •Synthesising multiple responses
  • •Your voice
  • •Follow-up prompts
KKUDOS
  • •Recognise and celebrate how AI contributed to your thinking.
  • •Reflect on AI’s influence and acknowledge that partnership through appropriate citation.
  • •Attribution and acknowledgement
  • •Empathy and impact
  • •Partnership pulse

About SPEAK with AI

The SPEAK with AI framework has been developed for use in secondary schools where students are permitted to use artificial intelligence tools under an approved AI usage policy. It provides a clear process to help students engage with AI thoughtfully and ethically — enhancing their thinking rather than replacing it.

Each step of the framework encourages purposeful, critical, and reflective use of AI. Students learn to set a clear intention for their task, prompt effectively, evaluate responses, apply insights with discernment, and give kudos by recognising AI’s contribution appropriately.

By following SPEAK with AI, students build AI literacy, critical thinking, and ethical awareness, developing the skills to collaborate with technology as creative, responsible learners.

Many of the tools exist as both downloadable Word document templates () and interactive online activities (), accessible by clicking the icons next to each tool. These activities can be exported to PDF or used on the Word docs and can be added to an assessment appendix if schools wish to see the process used by students during assessment.

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