Objective: The worksheet serves to educate students about the growing phenomenon of artificial intelligence addiction. Students should be made aware of the line between helpful support and compulsive use, reflect on their own behavior, and develop strategies for a healthy balance.
Content and methods: The content covers the concept of AI addiction, typical characteristics of dependency such as loss of control, tolerance development, and withdrawal symptoms, as well as psychological and neurobiological causes. This is supplemented by case studies on problematic and risky use, opportunities and risks of intensive AI application, and strategies for prevention and healthy use in everyday life. The methods include self-tests and self-assessments of one's own usage behavior, explanatory information texts, comparative case analyses, structured reflection phases on warning signs and possible courses of action, as well as creative transfer tasks such as designing rule posters with dos and don'ts.
Competencies:
- Self-reflection skills: Ability to critically evaluate one's own digital usage behavior
- Analytical skills: Identification of psychological warning signs and long-term social consequences of addiction
- Action skills: Development of usage rules and solutions for regaining self-control
- Health competence: Understanding the effects of AI on emotion regulation and general well-being
Target group and level: From grade 8 onwards