I agree learning comes from motivation, children need context and a problem to solve to really bring learning to life. AI is a tool, not a teacher. It can give you a first draft, an outline, or a starting point. But without human knowledge, creativity, and critical thinking, the output stays flat and humanness is lost! As a teacher I’ve been navigating Ai with my own children. I invite you to check out my most recent articles on supporting parents, teachers & children navigating Ai and learning.
This was a nice article on this very important and timely issue, Audrey. I will think on it more and likely write something on it in 2025Q4. More soon since I subscribed. Steven
The advice most parents get, teach them to be adaptable, curious, comfortable with the tools, is right as far as it goes. Curiosity has always outlasted whichever technology happened to be current. Here's the bit that usually gets left out of the parenting version of this conversation. What AI is automating first is the entry-level rung, the coordinating, summarising, first-draft work graduates have always used to learn the trade on someone else's payroll. You can raise the most AI-fluent teenager alive and still find the first job they'd have started in has quietly disappeared. Adaptability is a personal trait. Whether there's a starting rung to be adaptable on is a market question, and the two don't move together. So the more useful thing to tell parents isn't which tool to teach. It's to protect how their kids get their first real experience, mentoring, apprenticeships, anything that builds judgment over years, because that's the part no six-month course replicates. Fluency with the tool is the easy half. The hard half is where the first rung goes.
I agree learning comes from motivation, children need context and a problem to solve to really bring learning to life. AI is a tool, not a teacher. It can give you a first draft, an outline, or a starting point. But without human knowledge, creativity, and critical thinking, the output stays flat and humanness is lost! As a teacher I’ve been navigating Ai with my own children. I invite you to check out my most recent articles on supporting parents, teachers & children navigating Ai and learning.
This was a nice article on this very important and timely issue, Audrey. I will think on it more and likely write something on it in 2025Q4. More soon since I subscribed. Steven
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Agree 100%. That’s why I write AI for Parents. short, practical notes to help families guide kids’ AI use wisely.
The advice most parents get, teach them to be adaptable, curious, comfortable with the tools, is right as far as it goes. Curiosity has always outlasted whichever technology happened to be current. Here's the bit that usually gets left out of the parenting version of this conversation. What AI is automating first is the entry-level rung, the coordinating, summarising, first-draft work graduates have always used to learn the trade on someone else's payroll. You can raise the most AI-fluent teenager alive and still find the first job they'd have started in has quietly disappeared. Adaptability is a personal trait. Whether there's a starting rung to be adaptable on is a market question, and the two don't move together. So the more useful thing to tell parents isn't which tool to teach. It's to protect how their kids get their first real experience, mentoring, apprenticeships, anything that builds judgment over years, because that's the part no six-month course replicates. Fluency with the tool is the easy half. The hard half is where the first rung goes.