This session features speakers involved in a collaborative project with schools in Iceland, Sweden, Finland, Denmark, and the Netherlands, exploring how to build students’ critical literacy and communication skills as AI reshapes how young people learn, write, and think. The project brings together teachers undertaking classroom-based action research to compare and experiment with curriculum approaches across five education systems, including Finland’s digital competence and multiliteracy strategies, Sweden’s source criticism pedagogy, Denmark’s design thinking and playful learning, the Netherlands’ computational thinking and curriculum reform, and Iceland’s AI literacy. The discussion will highlight practical ways to help young people develop a deeper understanding of how information is shared, how data is collected, and how digital platforms operate, enabling them to understand, critique, create with, and ethically shape technologies and information.