AI for Kids

What If Your First Teacher Was an AI? (Middle+)

Mar 18, 2025
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Dipti Bhide
Dipti Bhide, CEO of LittleLit Kids AI and edtech entrepreneur, discusses how today's children are learning about AI in innovative ways. She shares insights from her journey, including how she created personalized AI tools for her neurodivergent son. Dipti emphasizes the importance of teaching kids AI basics, ethical considerations, and the difference between AI and human interactions. She advocates for a playful, hands-on approach to AI education, encouraging creativity while ensuring safety and critical thinking.
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ANECDOTE

Math Prompts Hooked Her Son

  • Dipti used GPT to generate personalized math problems to engage her autistic son and saw immediate interest and learning.
  • That experiment became the seed for LittleLit AI and showed AI's power to personalize learning for kids.
INSIGHT

Whole Child AI Framework

  • The Whole Child AI framework teaches what AI is, how it works, and its limits within a child's life context.
  • It ties safety, ethics, bias awareness, and human agency into AI education rather than only tool use.
ANECDOTE

Child Chooses Agency Over Shortcuts

  • Dipti's six-year-old preferred a guided story-creation flow that gave her agency over a one-click AI story.
  • The child chose the coaching path because it matched her imagined story better, teaching ethics by example.
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