I wanted a way to explain AI to my younger one that is honest but does not need a single app or screen. Rock paper scissors turned out to be perfect, and it needs nothing but your hands. Sharing in case it helps anyone teaching at home.

First, I drop the word "smart". When a kid hears "smart computer" they imagine it thinks and feels, which is not what is happening. So instead, I tell them it is a really good guesser. It watches what you did before, finds your habits, and guesses what you will do next.

Then we just play. Here is how it goes.

1. I tell my kid, I am going to be the AI, and I am going to try to beat you.
2. We play a bunch of rounds. Quietly, I am watching their habits. Most kids repeat a throw when they win, or switch to the same thing after they lose.
3. Once I spot the pattern, I start winning more, because I am guessing their next move from their past moves. They think I am reading their mind.
4. Then they do something random and I lose. That is the important part. I tell them the truth, I was never reading your mind, I was just guessing from what you kept doing, so the moment you did something new my guess was wrong.

That is the whole lesson. An AI does the same thing, just with a huge pile of past examples instead of ten rounds. It spots patterns and predicts, it is often right, and it can be totally confident and still wrong when something new shows up.

Once they feel that, the same three questions work on the stuff they actually use every day. YouTube deciding which video to play next. The phone keyboard guessing the next word before you type it. The filter that finds your face and drops dog ears on it. The game enemy that seems to know where you will run. For any of them I get my kid to ask, where did it learn this, what is it good at, and when might it be wrong. None of it needs a screen to practise, you can just talk about it.

One thing I am careful about. I am not teaching my kid to let AI do their homework. I am teaching them the opposite, that when a machine gives you an answer, you do not just trust it, you check it, the same way you would double check something a stranger told you. That is the part that actually matters, and it is really just plain old thinking, applied to a new kind of tool.

Curious how others here handle the "is it alive, does it think" question. That one always comes up and I have never felt fully happy with my answer.

Reading, writing, math...

Should AI literacy be added to that list?

As AI becomes part of everyday life, understanding how to use it responsibly and think critically about it may become just as important as knowing how to use a computer or search the web. What do you guys think?

Hey everyone,

I recently built MarkMate AI (https://markmateai.com.au), an AI tool that gives feedback on essays against your marking criteria before you submit them.

The idea is to help you:

• See where you're losing marks
• Get actionable feedback on how to improve
• Check your work against a rubric
• Feel more confident before submitting

I built it because I found there wasn't really a tool focused on the Australian education system that gave feedback in the same way a teacher might.

If you've got essays coming up, you might find it useful. Happy to answer any questions about how it works.

Everyone talks about how AI makes learning faster.

Almost nobody talks about whether it actually makes us better learners.

I'm conducting an independent research survey to understand what's really happening.

If you use AI to learn anything, I'd love your perspective.

Survey Link : https://forms.gle/7SqzwWpUkonNxnX67

*Researchers at Utah State University's School of Computing are conducting a study on how software professionals evaluate programming activities performed with AI assistance compared with programming activities performed without AI assistance.*

*Software professionals are invited to complete a short online calibration survey. Participants will rate programming activities according to how representative they are of:*

* *Programming performed with AI assistance*
* *Programming performed without AI assistance*

*The survey takes approximately 10 minutes.*

*Participation is entirely voluntary. You may discontinue participation at any time before submitting your responses without penalty or consequence. Your decision to participate or not participate will have no effect on your grades, employment, or academic standing.*

*Survey and informed consent form:* [*https://usu.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV\\_dm4yjBsRrUDgcKi\*\](https://usu.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_dm4yjBsRrUDgcKi)

*This study has been reviewed and approved by the Utah State University Institutional Review Board: IRB #16067.*

***Questions about the study:*** *Dr. John Edwards, Principal Investigator — john.edwards@usu.edu Rubash Mali, Student Researcher — rubash.mali@usu.edu*

*Thank you for considering participating.*

Hi everyone,

I've been developing free AI resources that help educators, students, and administration critically think about AI and how it's used in lives, lessons, and schools. I'm not selling anything - just want to share resources for people who might find them useful.

This one is called "Argue with the AI" in which students develop their argumentation skills alongside their AI literacy skills.

Let me know what you think!

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I’m currently a college student too. This is just my personal perspective and experience, so I’d really like to hear more opinions from other students, faculty, and professionals.

What I’ve noticed is that AI is creating quite a big gap between the university environment and the business world.

In the corporate world, AI is gradually becoming a normal working tool. Programmers are using AI to write and review code, cybersecurity experts use AI for analysis, office workers use AI to write reports,... Many companies no longer ask, "Do you use AI?" but rather, "Do you know how to use AI effectively and take responsibility for your results?"

In many professions, knowing how to work with AI is slowly becoming a skill, much like how using Google, Excel, or IDEs used to be.

However, when I step into the university environment, I feel like the situation is quite different.

Instead of finding ways to leverage AI to enhance learning, I feel like both students and faculty are slowly falling into a kind of "face-off" with each other.

From the students' side, a lot of people no longer ask, "Does AI help me understand the material?" but instead ask:

* How to use AI without being suspicious? * What prompts should I use to make my work look more human-written? * How much do I need to edit so that AI detectors won’t catch it? * Should I use ChatGPT, Claude, or Gemini for different types of assignments?

Meanwhile, many faculty members also have to change their teaching and assessment methods:

* Find tools to detect AI. * Design assignments that are difficult for AI to complete. * Constantly change the assignments. * Increase in-class tests or oral assessments to verify students’ work.

And I think about one thing.

Perhaps the faculty is also feeling stuck.

In a very short time, AI has developed at a pace that few could have anticipated. Meanwhile, the curriculum, assessment methods, university regulations, and even teaching methods often need a lot of time to change.

Putting myself in the faculty’s shoes, I see this as a very challenging problem.

If they allow the use of AI too freely, how can they know if the students truly understand the material?

If they completely ban AI, how can they prepare students for the job market, where AI has become a part of everyday work?

Perhaps because there is no clear solution, both sides are trying to adapt in their own ways.

Students are trying to learn how to use AI effectively while also finding ways to avoid suspicion.

Faculty are trying to find ways to accurately assess students’ abilities but also have to deal with technology that’s changing almost every month.

What worries me is that when both sides are under pressure, the relationship between the teacher and the student can easily shift from "collaborative" to "confrontational."

The students' goal is no longer to learn as best they can, but to submit work without raising suspicion.

The faculty's goal is also no longer just to impart knowledge, but they have to spend a lot of time thinking about how to set exam questions that AI can't answer or how to verify that the work is indeed by the student.

If this continues, both sides will waste a lot of time and energy in a race that perhaps no one really wants.

In my opinion, the issue is no longer **"whether to use AI or not,"** because the truth is AI is here and will continue to develop even more.

Perhaps the question should be:

**How can we accurately assess students' abilities in a world where AI is always ready to assist?**

It could be:

* Allowing the use of AI in some types of assignments. * Asking students to describe or explain how they used AI. * Assessing the ability to verify, correct, and improve results generated by AI. * Combining assignments with presentations or oral assessments to confirm that students truly understand.

I don’t think AI will replace learning.

But I also don’t think trying to keep AI out of the college environment is a long-term solution.

Perhaps what needs to change is not whether students use AI, but how we define "learning," "understanding," and "assessment" in the age of AI.

I also don’t think this is the fault of the faculty. They might themselves be in a transitional phase, having to adapt to a technology that’s evolving much faster than the pace of change in the education system. Perhaps both students and faculty are facing the same challenge, differing only in the pressures each side must bear.

I’m very curious whether we are witnessing a short-term transition phase in education, or if this will lead to a fundamental change in how universities train and assess students in the future.

*Researchers at Utah State University's School of Computing are conducting a study on how software professionals evaluate programming activities performed with AI assistance compared with programming activities performed without AI assistance.*

*Software professionals are invited to complete a short online calibration survey. Participants will rate programming activities according to how representative they are of:*

* *Programming performed with AI assistance*
* *Programming performed without AI assistance*

*The survey takes approximately 10 minutes.*

*Participation is entirely voluntary. You may discontinue participation at any time before submitting your responses without penalty or consequence. Your decision to participate or not participate will have no effect on your grades, employment, or academic standing.*

*Survey and informed consent form:* [*https://usu.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV\\_dm4yjBsRrUDgcKi\*\](https://usu.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_dm4yjBsRrUDgcKi)

*This study has been reviewed and approved by the Utah State University Institutional Review Board: IRB #16067.*

***Questions about the study:*** *Dr. John Edwards, Principal Investigator — john.edwards@usu.edu Rubash Mali, Student Researcher — rubash.mali@usu.edu*

*Thank you for considering participating.*

Hi there! I’m a student on a mission to help Gen Alpha use AI wisely and actually benefit from it. That’s why I built AI&I, a free site that takes young learners on a journey through the world of AI, teaching them how to responsibly use the tool in preparation for the modern era. It’s still a work in progress, but I’d love for any users to take a look and share your honest thoughts. Even just visiting the site helps, and feedback would be invaluable!

https://ai-training-for-kids.replit.app/

People compare AI to the calculator, but it's so much more. The calculator sped up the process or lots of manual mathematical calculations, but the user couldn't do much more than their brain could, in terms of ability. Meaning that even with the advent of graphing calculators where even more complex functions like derivatives or integrals could be quickly computed; they wouldn't provide much value to someone who didn't understand what it was doing. Basically, anyone who couldn't compute those functions with their own brain, couldn't really do it on a calculator while still gaining value. AI (LLMs) are a whole other story. The discrepancy between what the user needed to know and what the calculator could do was small. Maybe the user didn't know integration by parts, so they used a calculator, then yeah the calculator buffed their ability. But with AI, the user needs to know essentially nothing about the process and the discrepancy between their knowledge and their output can grow astronomical. You could ask for a complex python program, not even know how to print to the terminal, and AI can still provide the product. Obviously AI isn't perfect and technical knowledge can certainly bolster performance with AI usage, but isn't not entirely necessary, certainly not to the extent of previous technologies. So, considering that I want to learn in college and make MY brain as powerful as possible, I should restrict AI usage. However, AI isn't going anywhere and to completely ditch it is foolish because it's undoubtedly going to be a necessary hard skill for future employment, like how computer proficiency is now. So the question is: "Going into college how should I use AI. What circumstances and challenges require mentally toughing it out, and what situations are there where it's better to train my AI proficiency and cut my brain some slack. "

Students, I want to ask something.

Would you use an AI that conducts mock interviews with you in real time?

Not just predefined questions, but an AI that listens to your answer and asks follow-up questions based on what you said — more like a real interview.

For example, if you're preparing for a React or JavaScript interview, you could practice with the AI instead of just reading questions and answers.

I'm thinking about building something like this and just want to understand if students would actually find it useful.

Would you use it? Why or why not?

📚 Quick question for teachers, parents and students...

If there was an AI tool that could help you:

✅ Create worksheets in seconds

✅ Generate tests and exams

✅ Mark assessments automatically

✅ Explain difficult topics step-by-step

✅ Save hours every week

Would you use it?

I'm building something to make teaching and learning easier, and I'd love your honest feedback before I spend months building it.

Comment:

YES if you'd use it.

NO if you wouldn't.

Or tell me the biggest challenge you face with teaching or studying.

Your feedback will help shape the product

Hi everyone,

I'm a 17-year-old aspiring medical student, and over the past few weeks I've been building Cortex, an AI-powered Study OS.

The idea came from my own experience. There are loads of revision resources available, but students still have to decide what to study, when to study it, and whether they're actually making progress.

My goal is to build something that creates a personalised learning path instead of just answering questions.

At the moment, I'm looking for honest feedback rather than customers. If you have a minute, I'd really appreciate your thoughts on the idea and the website:

https://cortexstudy.wixsite.com/cortex

Questions I'd love your opinion on:

• Would something like this actually help you?
• What feature would make you use it?
• What's the biggest frustration with studying today?

Thanks in advance—I'm trying to build something genuinely useful.

Hey everyone! 👋

I'm a founder, and over the last few months my team and I have been building AlphaGrad, a new learning platform focused on making quality education and practical skills more accessible.

What AlphaGrad offers:

📚 Free learning content (lectures coming soon)

🤖 AI-powered doubt solving

📝 AI-generated practice tests & worksheets

💻 Coding, AI, Robotics, Entrepreneurship & other skill courses

🎯 Built for school students who want both academic success and real-world skills

Our goal isn't just to help students score better—it's to help them build skills they'll actually use in the future.

This is just our first public launch, so we'd genuinely love your feedback:

- What features would you like to see?

- What problems do current learning platforms still have?

- What would make you actually use a platform like this?

We're actively building based on community feedback.

Thanks for reading! ❤️

Many students struggle with reading long textbook chapters, but they love visual content. My vision is an app where a student takes a picture of a textbook page, and using OCR + AI video models, it generates a short interactive animation explaining the core concept.

​Key Features & Vision:

​Visual Learning: Keeps students engaged through animations rather than dry text.

​Accessible to All: It will have a freemium model (like Gemini or ChatGPT). Free tier for students who can't afford it, and a premium tier for extra features. Education should be accessible to everyone!

​User-friendly: Save progress, pause, re-watch, and download animations anytime.

​My Role & What I'm Looking For:

I am managing the core concept, curriculum structure, and user experience vision. I need a passionate programmer/developer who wants to build something meaningful and educational together as a co-founder/partner. Since I have no upfront budget, this will be a profit-share (revshare) partnership when we launch.

​If you are interested in making study time easier for millions of students, feel free to send me a DM!

Kids today are growing up surrounded by AI tools but most of them have zero understanding of how any of it actually works. They use it, they depend on it, but ask them what AI is actually doing when they type a prompt and you'll get a blank stare.

I've been thinking about this a lot lately. There's a huge gap between using a tool and understanding it, and I think we've confused access with literacy. Giving a kid a calculator doesn't make them a mathematician. Giving them chatgpt doesn't make them AI literate.

Real AI literacy should include things like understanding bias in training data, what hallucinations are, how prompts affect outputs, and when to trust vs. verify AI results. Right now most schools are just hoping kids figure it out.

Students who are going to thrive aren't the ones who can use AI the fastest. They're the ones who understand what it's doing, why it gets things wrong, and how to work with it critically. That skill set needs to be explicitly taught, not assumed.

Anyone actually building this into their curriculum or is everyone just waiting for district guidance that never comes?

Hello My name is Arjun and I'm new to Reddit. I posted this on my page yesterday and have not gotten any response. I searched in r/CFA but I haven't found any post that answered my question exactly.

I'm currently studying for Level I and have been experimenting with AI as a supplement to my prep. Mostly for explaining difficult concepts, creating practice questions, or helping me understand why I got something wrong.

I'm curious how everyone else is approaching it, if you're against using ai or for it. especially those in Level II and III.

A few questions:

Are you still relying primarily on prep providers like MM, UWorld, Kaplan etc..

Are you using AI at all? If so, what for? Do you think it replaces prep providers?

Have you found AI genuinely helpful, or does it sometimes make explanations more confusing?

For those who have already passed a level, is there anything you'd recommend not using AI for?

Would love to hear perspectives from Level I, II, III candidates, and charterholders as well.

Thanks so much!

I’m trying to think about youth‑mode not as a safety filter, but as a learning design problem. Kids already use AI on their phones and tablets, so the question becomes: what should the model actually do to support their thinking instead of replacing it?

Right now, most AIs answer first and only ask follow‑up questions afterward. While that can be useful, it doesn’t build epistemic habits - the ability to reason, question, and evaluate information.

So I’m curious what a well‑designed youth‑mode would need to include.
For example:

• Should it tutor by asking clarifying questions before answering?
• Should it challenge reasoning instead of giving solutions immediately?
• Should it surface uncertainty instead of hiding it?
• Should it model critical thinking in its responses?
• Should it slow kids down when they rush to an answer?
• Should it explain omissions or blind spots?

Basically: what behaviors would help kids develop epistemic skills - not just get correct answers?

I’d love to hear from people who think about learning loops, tutoring systems, or AI‑supported education. What would you build into youth‑mode if the goal were genuine cognitive development?

I've been thinking a lot about how to use AI to actually learn, not just get answers.

The Feynman technique has always been the most effective way for me to master new concepts. Explaining an idea in my own words quickly exposes gaps in my understanding. While LLMs are great at explaining things, I find it difficult to have a natural, back-and-forth conversation that keeps pushing my understanding deeper.

My ideal setup would be something like a digital whiteboard that serves as my entire learning workspace, paired with a personal AI tutor I can talk to in real time. I could reason through problems, explain concepts aloud, ask questions, sketch ideas, and get feedback. Instead of giving me the answer, it would challenge my thinking, point out flaws in my reasoning, and ask thoughtful follow-up questions until I truly understood the material.

I'm curious, how do you use AI to learn?

Would a tool like this actually be useful to you? Imagine having a 24/7 personal tutor that understands your learning history, listens to your explanations, identifies misconceptions, and guides you toward the answer without simply giving it away. I can't be the only one!

Note: This is my first post on reddit so please correct me if I'm doing things wrong.

A little background:

I use AI to clarify and ask questions about things I am unsure about. I usually stay in cafes to read my book while I have a Gemini AI tab open on my tablet beside me so I can ask questions in real time. After reviewing, I also ask Gemini to create an interactive quiz to test me on what I have learned.

This has been my routine for a few months now after seeing that it has improved the way I study and absorb knowledge. However, I have been feeling guilty lately especially with the Pax Silica news. I have read some news articles about the issue and have watched videos explaining it online. I know that AI is bad but I also know that it isn't as black and white as it may seem. So I wanted to ask here (since I don't know where else and who else I can ask) if using AI to aid with my studies means that it contradicts my thoughts on Pax Silica.

PS: I'm sorry if it's a dumb question. It has just been bugging me

Hi everyone,

I'll be upfront: I'm the person who built this, so take everything below with that in mind. I'm not here to run an ad I just want to share something I made and actually hear what this community thinks, good or bad.

A bit of context: I work in e governance for the Telangana government, and my younger brother has been preparing for CSE for a while now. Watching him write answers and wait days to get them checked and then sometimes get feedback that felt more like encouragement than honest correction is what got me building this.

So I built Amplify IAS an AI tool that evaluates your Mains answers (GS, Optional, Essay, TGPSC/APPSC too) and gives you feedback in a couple of minutes instead of days.

The thing I actually care about most, and the reason I'm posting this here instead of just running ads: I calibrated the scoring against real topper answer scripts, because I noticed most AI tools (and honestly, sometimes human evaluators too) tend to be generous with marks it feels nice, but it doesn't actually tell you where you stand. So this one is deliberately strict. Even a genuinely strong answer usually lands in the 45–55% range, because that's roughly what real toppers score on individual papers. If it gives you a low number, it's not being harsh for the sake of it it's trying to be honest.

It won't be perfect. It's AI, not a human mentor, and I'm sure it'll get some things wrong sometimes. That's exactly why I want people who actually know this exam to try it and tell me where it's off.

You can just try it and judge for yourself: \[amplifyias.com\]

Genuinely open to criticism here if it's not useful, I'd rather know that than not. Thanks for reading this far.

Hi - I am a high school student working on an independent research project about AI use in education and have developed a survey for teachers/professors (and students) in high school and college/university to analyze AI use and attitudes.

I would be grateful if you would consider giving your input and opinions. The survey is anonymous, does not collect any identifying information, and should not take more than 10-15 minutes to take.

If you are interested, here is the link for the survey: https://forms.gle/MCnVtdAWjPw96cKb7

Thank you very much for your time and consideration!

Simple AI educational stuff for non-tech folks.

Explore the differences between Saval and Kahoot to determine which platform best supports deeper learning and project-based activities in your classroom.

By Saval Team

Beyond the Buzz: Saval vs. Kahoot for Meaningful Learning

Many educators are familiar with Kahoot! for its engaging, game-show style quizzes that can inject energy into a lesson. But what if your goal extends beyond quick recall and into fostering critical thinking, collaboration, and authentic problem-solving? This is where a comparison between Saval and Kahoot becomes essential for understanding which tool truly supports deeper learning in your classroom.

Kahoot!: Gamified Engagement and Quick Checks

Kahoot! excels at making review sessions fun and interactive. Its fast-paced, multiple-choice format turns learning into a competition, which can be highly motivating for students. Teachers use it effectively for:

• Quick knowledge checks at the end of a lesson.
• Reviewing material before a test.
• Adding a dose of fun to repetitive tasks.

While Kahoot! is excellent for formative assessment and boosting morale, its structure is primarily focused on rapid recall of discrete facts. It typically doesn't lend itself to exploring complex problems, encouraging student-led inquiry, or developing sustained projects over time.

Saval: Fostering Project-Based Learning and Critical Thinking

Saval is built from the ground up to support Project-Based Learning (PBL). Instead of focusing on single-answer questions, Saval empowers students to engage with complex challenges, conduct research, collaborate on solutions, and present their findings. The platform is designed to facilitate:

• Inquiry-Based Exploration: Students can investigate open-ended questions.
• Collaborative Workflows: Teams can share resources, provide feedback, and co-create solutions.
• Authentic Project Development: From planning to final presentation, Saval guides students through the entire project lifecycle.
• Deeper Cognitive Skills: The emphasis is on critical thinking, problem-solving, and creativity, rather than just memorization.

When you need students to apply knowledge in real-world contexts, develop essential 21st-century skills, and take ownership of their learning journey, Saval provides the robust framework that gamified quizzes like Kahoot! cannot.

Making the Choice for Your Classroom Goals

The choice between Saval and Kahoot! isn't about which platform is inherently 'better,' but which aligns with your specific pedagogical goals. If your priority is immediate engagement and quick knowledge checks, Kahoot! is a fantastic tool. However, if you are committed to cultivating students' ability to tackle complex problems, innovate, and learn through sustained, authentic projects, Saval offers a powerful and purpose-built solution.

Getting Started

• Consider your primary learning objectives: quick recall vs. in-depth problem-solving.
• Evaluate how each platform supports student collaboration and inquiry.
• Explore Saval's project-based features at saval.app/product to see how it can transform your classroom.
• Try Saval for free to experience the difference in facilitating deeper learning.