The AI Literacy Shop Reviews 

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About the store Experience There's a difference between a student who uses AI to write the essay and a student who uses AI to skip the source material entirely — to never do the reading, the noticing, the wrestling that used to happen before a single word got written. The first is a discipline problem. The second is the one that keeps me up at night: it's the thinking itself going quiet. I'm not the teacher who panics about new technology. I taught it for fifteen years — I know how many doors it opens. So the first time I saw this, it wasn't fear. It was recognition. Writing that was suddenly too smooth. Answers eerily alike. Whole paragraphs a student couldn't explain if you asked them to. Across every subject, not just mine. And then I looked over at my own kid — and it stopped being a classroom problem and became the world they're growing up in. That's what this shop is for. Every resource is built for the secondary classroom around one question: what does a person still need to know how to do — even when the machine will do it for them? Nothing here treats AI as exciting, and nothing here treats it as the enemy. It's built for one thing: students still doing the cognitive work, even when they don't have to. Teaching style AI literacy is critical thinking. And critical thinking is the first thing AI puts at risk — not because AI is bad, but because it removes the friction students need in order to actually think. I built this shop on one position: a teacher's job isn't to block AI, and it isn't to police it. It's to make sure students know exactly what they're handing over when they let the machine think for them — and to choose, on purpose, what to keep doing themselves. So every resource asks students to notice, compare, question, or decide — not just identify or fill in. The cognitive work stays with the student. That isn't a philosophy statement; it's the only thing that holds up in a room where ChatGPT is one tab away. If you want tools to move faster, this isn't your shop. If you want students who can still think in a world that will happily think for them, you're in the right place. Awards & shining teacher moments I don't measure this work in awards. I measure it in one moment I spent my whole teaching career chasing: a student going from "I don't get it" to "oh — I get it now." That flicker when the understanding is theirs, not borrowed. Everything here exists to protect that moment — to keep it possible in an age when a machine will hand a kid the answer and quietly skip the part where they come to understand it. That's the only shining moment I care about, and it's the bar every resource in this shop has to clear before it goes live. My own education history I'm Maya. Fifteen years in the classroom teaching technology and computer science, and then a decision to leave it and build this full-time. Because I taught the tech, I refused to teach it in fear. I went deep on AI on purpose and earned my ISTE Certification, so I could teach it honestly — what it does, what it costs, and where it quietly takes something from a student who leans on it too early. I didn't leave teaching. I left the classroom — to take teaching further than one room. Additional biographical information There's a personal reason I stay this focused: I'm a parent too. I watch my own kid grow up with AI already in the homework, the phone, the shortcut past the hard part — and I want them to come out of it able to ask better questions, to doubt an answer that sounds right, and to check the source before trusting it. I want exactly that for your students. So the catalog stays narrow on purpose — the years when students build the habits that follow them for life: how they read, how they draft, how they decide what's true. Depth over breadth. A few things done thoroughly, so they actually hold up in a real room. If you're not sure where to start, start with one of the free resources. It's the most honest way to see whether this fits your classroom before you spend a dollar — and if it does, the rest of the shop is built exactly the same way. — Maya MartinezSee more