| I spent an afternoon vibe coding a game with them (10 + 6). We took it in turns describing what to build, and I did my best to explain that the AI was interpreting our instructions and writing to code. They could see the code changing and sort of understood the concept from that. Key thing I tried to emphasise what that this whole process was new and that before November last year wasn't possible. They really got it, my younger son is very excited about the idea of build games that follow the stories he comes up with (he's recently been spending time writing stories on a iPad, inspired by his novelist mother). We're going to spend more time experimenting together over the summer holidays. Kids are curious sponges, I don't think you need to spell out to them exactly how it works, just show them and their curiosity takes over. I know at school the teachers have been using image GenAI in English lessons with my older daughter, using it in lessons about descriptive language. They have had the kids experiment with describing things and getting images back. I was quite impressed to hear they were doing that, it's a great way to introduce the concepts in the context of a topic they are covering. On the general topic of tech we have always (from as soon as they could hold a device) let the kids play computer games, and experiment themselves with tablets. But we've had the internet locked down, and not let them have things like YouTube Kids, it feels too close to social media, and serve explained the dangers of that to them. So very pro exposing children to tech, but no social media at all. I think in time we will try and explain the danger and downsides of AI, but it's all so new, there's not much to cover yet, particularly as we are still developing our own opinions. |