Latest Blog Posts
AI Pre-LiteracyDigital Dividedisability inclusionearly childhood educationearly learning standardsEducationeducational equityfoundational learninginclusive educationlanguage diversityParenting
Blog 7-3: Standardization and Equity in the Early Years: Can One Foundational Learning Agenda Serve All Children?
Foundational learning needs shared goals, but not identical provision. This blog asks whether one early-learning agenda can serve all children ...
AI Pre-Literacyearly childhood educationearly literacyEducationfoundational learninghome literacy environmentlanguage developmentnumeracyParentingPlay-Based Learningteacher-child interaction
Blog 7-2: Making Foundational Learning Work for Young Children: Teachers, Language, and Everyday
Young children do not develop literacy, numeracy, and AI pre-literacy through formal instruction alone. This blog examines the teachers, families, ...
AI Pre-Literacycurriculum reformearly childhood educationEducationeducational equityfoundational learninglearning povertyPakistan educationParentingprimary educationteacher development
Blog7-1: Learning Poverty and the Limits of Curriculum Reform in Early Childhood and Primary Education
Curriculum reform is often treated as the main solution to learning poverty, but young children’s learning depends on much more ...
AI EducationAI LiteracyAI Pre-LiteracyChild DevelopmentCreatingcritical thinkingDigital ParentingParentingParenting in AI AgePromptingQuestioning
Why AI Literacy Gives Your Child an Edge — From Prompting to Creating to Questioning
A father's son used ChatGPT for a science project. The teacher gave him a C. "He can use AI," the ...
AI LiteracyAI Pre-LiteracyChild DevelopmentComputer LiteracyDigital DivideDigital ParentingEarly ChildhoodEducationEquityOECDParenting in AI AgeUNESCO
From Computer Literacy to AI Literacy: A 40-Year Journey — And the Child We Left Behind
A five-year-old asked a smart device a question. The answer was wrong. He asked again. Wrong again. He turned to ...
AI Early LiteracyAI LiteracyAI Pre-LiteracyAI Pre-Literacyartificial intelligenceChild DevelopmentEarly ChildhoodParentingParenting
Your Child’s Prime Years Are Happening Now — And AI Is Already In Them
AI Pre-Literacy names the developmental territory from birth to approximately eight years in which children form the linguistic, cognitive, affective, ...
AI Early LiteracyAI Pre-LiteracyAI Pre-Literacychild-robot interactionearly childhood AIEducationevidence mapopen scienceresearch infrastructure
AI Pre-Literacy Research Observatory: An Open Evidence Map for Researchers
If you are planning a study, writing a review, positioning a grant, or looking for a gap, the Observatory shortens ...
Ages 2-7AI Early LiteracyAI LiteracyAI Pre-LiteracyAI Pre-LiteracyChild DevelopmentDigital ParentingEarly ChildhoodEducationParenting in AI AgePlay-Based Learning
AI Literacy Is Essential — And It Assumes Your Child Is Already 8. What About Age 2–7?
A four-year-old told her mother that Alexa was her friend. Her mother asked me if that was a problem. Most ...
AI Early LiteracyAI LiteracyAI Pre-LiteracyAI Pre-LiteracyChild Developmentcritical thinkingDigital ParentingEducationParentingParenting in AI Age
Why AI Literacy Gives Your Child an Edge — From Prompting to Creating to Questioning
A father's son used ChatGPT for a science project. The teacher gave him a C. "He can use AI," the ...
AI Pre-LiteracyChildren and Technologycritical thinkingDigital LiteracyDigital NativesInformation LiteracyParenting in AI AgeSearch Engine LiteracySearch EnginesUNESCO AI Framework
Digital Literacy and the Search Engine Child: Why Finding Isn’t Understanding
A teacher asked her 10-year-old student how he knew his search result was reliable. "It was the first result," he ...
AI and ChildrenChild DevelopmentCollaborationComputer Literacycritical thinkingEducationEmpathyFoundation SkillsSelf-Regulation
Why Computer Literacy Is Not Enough Anymore—But We Still Need Its Discipline
A child types a perfect prompt into an AI tool. The AI generates a flawless essay. No struggle. No frustration ...
From Silence to Voice: The BUNYAAD Framework is Now Live!
We are thrilled to announce the launch of the BUNYAAD Framework — a zero-cost, culturally-rooted, and evidence-based framework designed to ...
abstractionAI Pre-Literacyalgorithmic thinkingchild cognitive developmentcoding classescomputational thinkingdebugging gamesdecompositionLogo Turtleno computer gamespattern recognitionSeymour Papertunplugged coding
The Logo Turtle and the Birth of Thinking: How Computer Literacy Tried to Teach Children to Think
In 1967, a small robot called the Turtle taught children to program. But it was never about coding. It was ...
AI literacy foundationAI Pre-LiteracyAI Pre-Literacycomputer literacy for kidsevolution of literacyfrom computer literacy to AI literacyhistory of digital literacyomputer literacySeymour Papert
What Was Computer Literacy? Why Knowing Parts of a Computer Was Once Enough
In 1985, if your child knew what a floppy disk was, she was computer literate. That was not small. It ...
AI LiteracyAI literacy for kidsAI Pre-Literacyalgorithmic persuasionbias in AIchild AI educationcognitive offloadingcompetence understanding gapcritical thinkinghallucinationParentingParenting in AI Ageprediction vs knowledgeprobabilitytraining datauncertainty
The Competence–Understanding Gap: Your Child Knows How to Use AI— But Does Your Child Understand It?
A child can be brilliant at using AI and still have almost no idea how it works. That is the ...
attachment repairchild resiliencecontribution ritualfamily identityfamily ritualsfamily storiesidentity fortressintergenerational storiesParentingParenting in AI Agerepair ritualsense of belonging
The Identity Fortress: Three Family Rituals AI Can Never Replace
AI can be a tutor, a playmate, an answer machine. It cannot give your child a sense of who they ...
The Guessing Machine – A Five-Minute Exercise to Demystify AI for a Six-Year-Old
Today I share the 5-minute game I play with a 6-year-old to teach this — no apps, no prep, just ...
Raising a Code-Breaker, Not a Code-User: Three Algorithmic Thinking Games With No Computer
Don't just teach kids to code. Teach them to break code. Three simple games with no computer — Buggy Recipe, ...
The Oracle Child: When Children Start Treating AI as an Authority
AI answers with fluency and confidence, which children can mistake for accuracy. Teaching critical AI literacy — checking sources and ...
The Empathy Muscle: 5 Daily Practices to Keep Empathy Human When AI Always Agrees
Empathy is not taught by lecture. It is built like a muscle — through repeated, effortful, real practice where action ...