#AI literacy
22 articles
- China's AI homework apps don't just give the answer
China's biggest AI homework apps catch the mistake, explain it, then test the skill again. Here's how to copy that loop tonight.
- How to build an AI that can tell rock from paper from scissors
A free tool lets your child train a real machine learning model with a webcam, then wire it into a rock-paper-scissors game they built themselves.
- Gemini in Google Sheets: how to build a monthly budget
Many people in India already pay for, or were given, Gemini in Google Sheets. Here is how to use it to build a monthly budget, step by step.
- Google built a study tool that refuses to give the answer
NotebookLM's Learning Guide asks your child questions instead of answering them, and it turns their own notes into a quiz. Free, and open tonight.
- Why ChatGPT makes things up, explained in plain words
Why ChatGPT makes things up: a London court, a European news study and OpenAI's own research explain the guessing habit, and where to check it.
- Merlin Bird ID gives your child an ear for birdsong
Merlin names birds from their song in seconds, and radar counts a billion more overhead at night. Two ways AI makes a child's world louder and bigger.
- Teachable Machine lets your child train an AI, then fool it
A Google tool lets a child train a working AI model in ten minutes with a webcam. The real fun starts when they work out how to fool the thing they built.
- NASA's volunteers found 3,000 brown dwarfs. Kids can help too
NASA volunteers doubled the known count of brown dwarfs by spotting dots that moved. Here is the citizen science your child can join tonight.
- Japan's school AI rules are about timing. Borrow them for homework
Japan's education ministry lists the moments children should not use AI for schoolwork. Its homework rules translate neatly to a Singapore home.
- Kids given AI still reached for the crayons
Researchers in Scotland gave 40 children generative AI for three days. Given a free choice for creative work, they preferred the craft table.
- Google Search now draws the diagram, and nobody checked it
Google's new study tools generate science diagrams and quizzes inside Search, free and global in English. Here is what that changes for a child here.
- YouTube Kids AI videos: how to spot them and what to change
AI-made cartoons are being recommended to young children on YouTube. Why the labels miss them, how to spot them, and which settings actually help.
- Roblox Build lets kids make a game by typing one line
Roblox Build turns a typed sentence into a playable game, and kids in New Zealand got it first. Here is what it actually changes for a child.
- Beijing's robot games, and the joy of watching them fall
Beijing's second World Humanoid Robot Games opens next week. The falling over is the best part, and the most useful thing a child can watch.
- ChatGPT makes Ghibli-style art in seconds. Teach this first
Your child wants a Ghibli-style AI picture. Japan spent a year arguing about that exact request, and it hands parents a clearer thing to teach.
- Studying with AI works better when it asks the questions
American students mostly ask AI to explain things. Decades of learning science say studying with AI works better when the machine does the asking.
- Why AI gets weaker when your child asks in Hindi or Tamil
Benchmarks show chatbots score lower in Indian languages than in English. Four home habits that help a child use AI in their own language well.
- What counts as cheating when your child uses AI for homework
Britain's exam regulator has written down what honest AI use in coursework looks like. The rule behind it makes a workable homework habit at home.
- India's AI curriculum starts at Class 3, with puzzles not chatbots
From 2026-27, India teaches AI from Class 3, and the plan leans on maths puzzles rather than chatbots. Here is what a Singapore parent can take from it.
- What kids built with AI this summer: drones, art and a $120 sensor
American students spent a festival weekend at MIT showing what kids built with AI: rescue drones, art and water sensors. What parents can borrow from it.
- How to teach your child to fact-check an AI
South Korea just demoted its AI school textbooks over errors. The lasting skill to teach kids at home is how to check what an AI tells them.
- Schools are teaching kids AI faster than they're making rules
Nearly every student already uses AI, but most schools still have no formal rules for it. Here is what parents should actually ask their child's school.
