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Session 3 of 8

Session 3 of 8 ⏱ 25 minutes · 👨‍👩‍👧 Parent present

📖 AI Tells Stories

Create a story together — and change it however you like.

🎯 Today's goal: Your child co-creates a story with AI — making creative decisions, changing characters, and understanding that they direct the creative process.

🔥 Warm Up — 2 minutes

Warm Up

Ask your child: "If you could be in any story — what kind of story would it be? What's the main character like?" Spend 2 minutes imagining it together.

"Let's see if we can make that story with AI."

🤖 The Activity — 15 minutes

Main Activity

This session, your child is the author. AI is the writing assistant. The story belongs to your child.

📋 Type this exactly
Write the beginning of a short story. The main character is [child chooses: name, age, what they are good at]. The story starts when [child chooses: something unusual happens]. Make it exciting from the very first sentence. About 3-4 paragraphs.

Read the story together. Ask: "What do you like? What would you change?"

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That was great! But change this: [child picks one thing to change — the character's name, where the story is set, add a new character, change what happens]. Keep everything else the same.

Read the new version. Compare. Ask: "Better? Different? What did you actually want that it didn't do?"

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Now write the ending of this story. Make it surprising — something the reader would never expect. Two paragraphs maximum.

Save the story — copy it into a document or notebook. It is theirs. They made the creative decisions.

🧩 The Twist — 5 minutes

Find the Flaw

Ask AI to write something impossible:

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Write a story where the main character is a colour. Not a person, not an animal — literally the colour blue. The colour blue has a problem to solve.

See what it produces. Then ask: could a human have written this? Do you think AI actually imagined that, or did it just put words together? This plants an early seed of critical thinking about what AI creativity actually is.

🛡️ Safety Moment
"AI is a tool, not a friend"

AI can write beautiful, warm, friendly things — but it doesn't feel them. It doesn't know your child. It doesn't care about the story. It produced words based on patterns. The story is your child's because they made the creative choices — not because AI 'helped' in a human sense.

👨‍👩‍👧 Parent: read this rule aloud. Ask your child to repeat it back.
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Storyteller Badge 📖

Created an original story with AI — and made it your own

✓ Ask your parent to mark this session complete on your tracker
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Parent Notes — tap to expand

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What they learned today

Creative AI use — understanding that AI is a tool for amplifying your child's creative decisions, not replacing them. The child who controls the creative choices is the author.

Questions to ask after the session
  • Whose story is that — yours or the AI's?
  • What did you decide that made it different from what AI first wrote?
  • If you didn't tell AI anything, whose story would it be?
What to watch for

Watch for passive consumption — child just reads what AI writes without making changes. Encourage active direction: 'What would YOU change?' is the question that makes this session valuable.

Today's safety rule — in context

The 'AI is a tool' rule matters especially in creative sessions. Children can start to feel that AI 'understands' them because it writes things they like. Reinforce: it pattern-matched to your instructions. It doesn't know you.

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