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Session 8 of 24 β€” AI Builder

AI Builder Β· Session 8 of 24⏱ 30 min Β· πŸ‘¨β€πŸ‘©β€πŸ‘§ Parent aware

πŸ—ΊοΈ Month 1 Review

Consolidate everything from the first 8 sessions.

🎯 Today's goal: Your child reviews, consolidates, and demonstrates everything learned in Month 1 β€” building a personal reference that will guide the rest of the programme.

πŸ”₯ Warm Up β€” 3 minutes

Warm Up

"You are one third of the way through AI Builder. Before we go further β€” let's make sure everything from Month 1 is solid."

"Today you make a resource that will be useful for the rest of your life β€” a personal AI guide written by you."

πŸ€– The Activity β€” 20 minutes

Main Activity

The Month 1 Personal AI Guide

Your child writes (or dictates, and you type) their own guide to AI. Not AI's guide to AI β€” their guide. Based on what they have actually experienced.

πŸ“‹ Type this exactly
I am going to write my own guide to AI. Help me structure it. I want it to cover: what AI actually is (in my own words), what it is good at (from my experience), what it is bad at (from my experience), how to write good prompts, how to spot when AI is wrong, and what the safety rules are. Give me a structure with headings and space under each one for me to fill in myself.

AI provides the structure. Your child fills in every section β€” in their own words, from their own experience. This is a genuine synthesis exercise.

Test the guide β€” ask AI to review it:

πŸ“‹ Type this exactly
Here is a guide to AI written by a 12-year-old based on their own experience: [paste the guide]. What did they get right? What important things are missing? What could be clearer?

Your child reads the feedback. They decide what to update. Final version is theirs.

🧩 The Twist β€” 5 minutes

Deep Dive
πŸ“‹ Type this exactly
What is the most important thing a young person should understand about AI that most adults do not understand? Explain it simply.

Read together. Ask: Do you agree? Is there something you understand about AI now that you think most adults do not? What is it? The answer is often surprisingly sophisticated after 24 sessions across all three programmes.

πŸ›‘οΈ Safety Moment
“All five rules β€” Month 1 review”

One third through the programme. A good moment to verify all five rules are still solid. Ask your child to write them down from memory. If they can β€” they have the habits. If any are forgotten β€” revisit that session before continuing.

πŸ‘¨β€πŸ‘©β€πŸ‘§ Parent: read this aloud. Ask your child to repeat it back.
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Month 1 Graduate Badge πŸ—ΊοΈ

Completed Month 1 of AI Builder β€” and created a personal AI guide

βœ“ Mark this session complete on your tracker
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Parent Notes β€” tap to expand

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What they learned

Synthesis and metacognition β€” creating a personal reference from experience rather than instruction. The guide produced today is genuinely theirs and genuinely useful.

Questions to ask
  • What was the most important thing you learned in Month 1?
  • What is in your AI guide that surprised you when you wrote it down?
  • What are you most curious about for Months 2 and 3?
What to watch for

The personal guide exercise is one of the best assessment tools in the programme. What children choose to include reveals what has actually landed for them.

Safety in context

Month 1 is a good natural break point. If the child needs time off before continuing β€” encourage them to keep the guide somewhere accessible. It should be a living document they return to.