Four Simple Ways to Support Kids’ Thinking Skills in the Age of AI

[Timothy Cook]: So let’s talk about four really simple solutions that anyone – parent, teacher – can deploy, like, as culturally as part of their classroom, part of their home. It doesn’t even matter, like, if we’re not even thinking about AI, we’re just thinking about how do we create, like, a pro-capability? How do we ensure that our children are still developing well? So these are the four things. But as you might notice with these four things, these are probably four things that you as an adult grew up with when you were a kid. And these are the things that still need protection, right? So asking that follow-up question, not telling the answer right away, letting a child be bored just for a little bit, right? Making them wait for you sometimes. And specifically, if you were a parent that was concerned about how AI is deployed in the school, just asking the teacher or the school, like, “What cognitive event is either AI assisting or replacing here?” Not in an aggressive way, but just out of curiosity. Like, “What’s the purpose of this tool or technology for this cognitive event?” And if it’s replacing an event a child should be learning how to do before they use the model, then I would consider that the wrong usage.