I'm making my 11-year-old brother build something new with AI every day for 30 days to earn his birthday phone. Have you tried something like this with your kids? What worked?
My brother is 11 with zero prior experience with AI and I decided to run a little experiment on him. Disclosure: I'm an AI specialist at a tech company in SF so I'd genuinely love perspectives from people outside the AI bubble.
For context, he asked me for a new phone for his birthday coming up in July. I had been wanting to teach him AI for a while so I decided to give him a Claude pro subscription and a challenge to build something new of his interest every day for 30 days. If he completes the challenge, he gets the phone. Simple like that.
He's one week in and I'm impressed with how he uses AI to help with things like understanding math (without simply asking for answers) and helping build a daily routine.
The reason I wanted to open this thread was to hear from parents/family/educators who have taught their kids AI and what incentives they put in place to make it a meaningful experience.
Are you teaching your kids AI? What's your approach? And for those who have set up challenges like this, what measures and tools did you build around it to make it actually work?