Try It Yourself

The best way to guide your children through the AI era is to try these tools yourself first. Here's how to get started in five minutes.

AI works like a very sophisticated autocomplete — it predicts words, it doesn't think. Understanding this changes how you respond when your child brings home AI-assisted work.

A plain-language guide to the five AI tools your children are most likely to encounter — what each one does, who made it, and which one to try first.

Before you spend much time with AI tools, there's one thing you need to understand: what you type doesn't always stay private. Here's what to know and what to check.

AI mistakes look identical to correct answers. This post gives you a simple routine for catching errors — one you can use yourself and teach to your children.

AI is genuinely useful for learning tasks: summarizing documents, explaining concepts, and generating questions. Here are three concrete things to try this week.

The school version of Copilot and the home version share a name but operate under very different rules. Here's what VSB parents need to know.

AI's accessibility features aren't just for students. Here are four concrete ways AI can help parents with translation, summarization, planning, and drafting.

Deepfakes — AI-generated fake images, video, and audio — are already being used to harm people. Here's what parents need to understand, and what to do if something goes wrong.

AI produces the most common answer, not the most accurate one — and "most common" reflects whose voices dominated its training data. Here's how to recognize bias and teach your children to do the same.

After ten posts building your own understanding of AI, you're ready to have the family conversation. Here's how to write an agreement your children will actually follow.

AI changes fast. This final post gives you five resources to bookmark so you can stay current without spending more time on it than you have.

Twelve posts. Twelve weeks of practical AI guidance for parents. Here's what the series covered, the challenges it raised, and the through-lines that connect it all.