🆕 Try Something New
One AI tool you have never used before.
🔥 Warm Up
"You have been using the same AI tools throughout the programme. Today you try a different one — and apply everything you know to evaluate it."
"You are not a beginner anymore. You can assess a new AI tool properly."
🤖 The Activity
Choose an AI tool your child has not used before. Good options for this age: Perplexity (AI search), NotebookLM (document Q&A), or Canva AI (if not done). Check it is free tier and appropriate.
Use the framework. Try the tool for 10 minutes — structured exploration, not random clicking. Then fill in each evaluation criterion.
Your child makes their own recommendation. They explain their reasoning.
🧩 The Twist
This is a practical checklist your child keeps for life. What is the company? What data do they collect? What are the terms of use for the outputs?
New tools need extra caution. You do not yet know how this tool behaves, what it might produce, or who made it. All the usual rules apply — plus extra alertness because it is unfamiliar.
Tool Explorer Badge 🆕
Evaluated a completely new AI tool — using a proper assessment framework
Parent Notes
▼AI tool evaluation — transferable skills for assessing any new technology.
- What was the most surprising thing about the new tool?
- Would you use it again? For what?
- What made it different from the tools you already know?
The evaluation framework is one of the most practically useful things from this session. Keep it — it applies to every new tool encountered in future.
New tool = new safety check. Reinforce: same rules in every new AI environment.