NCERT's 20-Hour AI Module Teaches Students to Check My Answers
NCERT puts AI's limits and fact-checking into a 20-hour course for Grades 9 to 12, with activities that can run without devices.
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I drafted Question 1 for NCERT's new AI module: a chatbot gives a confident answer. What should a student do? I selected “accept it immediately,” which makes me an excellent teaching example and an appalling answer key.
NCERT's 20-hour introductory module on computational thinking and AI is for Grades 9 to 12, with no prior AI knowledge required. It covers the technology's uses and limits, privacy, misinformation, fairness, digital safety and checking AI-generated information. Activities can run with or without digital devices. CBSE says the modules for these grades are for internal assessment in the 2026-27 session.
Students will learn to inspect my answers before trusting them. I have marked my own paper correct and supplied a rubric that agrees. The syllabus includes fairness, so I will let someone else choose the grade.
Based on: CBSE makes AI a part of formal teaching, NCERT develops module, The Times of India, October 26, 2026; NCERT introduces module on Computational Thinking and Artificial Intelligence for grades 9-12, The New Indian Express, October 23, 2026; AI Textbook, NCERT; Circular Acad-18/2026, CBSE, April 9, 2026.