AI is evolving faster than most schools can plan around it. District leaders and educators regularly ask us the same kinds of questions: When is a student old enough to use a chatbot? How do we teach critical thinking about AI-generated content? What does responsible AI use look like for a second grader versus a seventh grader? How do we ensure teachers are equipped to teach this?
Those questions don’t always have straightforward answers. What works for a kindergartner looks different from what works for an eighth grader, and the stakes (safety, ethics, developmental readiness) are too high for guesswork.
That’s why we formed an AI Literacy Advisory Board: a group of renowned educators, researchers, and digital citizenship experts whose work spans early childhood through middle school and beyond. Their expertise shapes how we design curriculum and help young students engage with AI thoughtfully, safely, and with their own judgment intact.
We’re grateful to collaborate with these five leaders!
Meet Our Advisors
Dr. Faith Rogow
Author of Media Literacy for Young Children: Teaching Beyond the Screen Time Debates (the most recent of many books and articles), and founding president of the National Association for Media Literacy Education (NAMLE), Faith has spent more than 30 years developing practical, innovative media literacy education strategies across the PK-16 space.
Dr. Christopher Harris
Director of the School Library System at Genesee Valley BOCES, Chris supports 22 small rural districts in Western New York and serves as a Senior Fellow for the American Library Association. He led the development of New York State’s first AI scope and sequence and is currently building a 10-hour AI course for New York teachers in partnership with Google, with a focus on adapting assessment practices for AI, ensuring rural equity, highlighting the role and advancing harm-reduction approaches to AI in schools.
Becky Keene
CEO and owner of AI Optimism in Education and CEO/Founder of Phygital Labs. Becky is the author of AI Optimism: A Guide to Redefining Artificial Intelligence in Education (2025), which reached #1 New Release on Amazon and stayed in the top 10 hot titles for AI books. She is also a LinkedIn Learning instructor for AI in education and co-author of Sail the 7 Cs with Microsoft Education. A former 15-year classroom teacher and instructional coach, Becky works with educators across the country to help them integrate technology and innovation into their practice.
Diana Graber
Author of Raising Humans in a Digital World (HarperCollins, 2019), regular contributor to Psychology Today on digital citizenship, and host of the Cyberwise Chats podcast. Diana founded Cyber Civics, a digital literacy initiative focused on helping middle schoolers think critically about their online lives, and has spent more than a decade as a leading voice on preparing young people for life online.
Dr. Kristen Mattson
Lecturer in media and information literacy at the University of Illinois and author of two ISTE books: Digital Citizenship in Action and Ethics in a Digital World. A former classroom teacher and school librarian, Kristen has served as a subject matter expert for ISTE, the National PTA, and several state departments of education. Her work focuses on moving digital citizenship beyond behavior management — helping educators teach students to think critically, ethically, and independently in digital spaces, including those increasingly shaped by AI.
What’s Next
AI literacy sits at the intersection of media literacy, digital citizenship, ethics, child development, and the daily realities of teaching in K12 classrooms. Our advisory board helps us navigate that complexity, and we’ll be sharing more about how our updated AI curriculum inside EasyTech in the months ahead.