For parents and carers
No AI knowledge needed. Your child learns how AI works, how to check it, and how to keep private things private.
In short: You make one family account. You add each child. They sign in with the username and password you choose.
Get started in 4 steps
You are in charge. Children never sign up on their own.
Create your account
Use your email and a password. It is free.
Add your child
Pick a nickname (not a real name), a stage, a username and a password.
Give them the sign-in
They sign in on the kids’ page and start lesson 1.
Check in
See progress, download a report card, talk about it.
What your child will learn
By about age 14, your child can:
- explain how AI learns from data
- train and test a small model
- spot mistakes, bias and made-up answers
- keep their own and other people’s information private
- decide when to trust, check or question AI
- talk about the good and the risks of AI
Lessons show benefits and risks fairly. They make children curious, not scared, and never ask children to take AI’s word for anything.
What this website does and does not do
- Every lesson and activity works without an account.
- Only a parent can create an account. Children cannot sign up.
- A child profile holds a nickname, username, password, stage and progress. No email, real name, photo or birthday.
- No adverts. No tracking or analytics.
- Cookies are used only to keep someone signed in, and only after they sign in.
- No AI chat on this site, and no way for strangers to contact a child. The optional AI lab tests are run by a grown-up on another company’s service.
- No photos, camera or microphone.
- The activities run in the browser. Nothing a child does on them is sent anywhere.
Family accounts
A family account lets children save their progress and lets you see it.
- You sign up with your email and a password.
- Add a profile for each child. You choose their username and password.
- Children sign in on the kids’ sign-in page, tick off lessons and collect badges.
- You see each child’s progress and can download a PDF report card.
- Reset a password, delete a profile or delete everything at any time.
Talk about it at home
A few conversation starters for each stage. There are no right answers, and “I don’t know, let’s check” is a great one.
Explorers, ages 5 to 7
- Ask your child which things at home are smart helpers, and which only follow fixed rules.
- Ask: “What could a smart helper get wrong?”
- Practise the class chorus together: “Ask a grown-up first.”
Builders, ages 7 to 9
- Ask: “How would you teach a machine to tell an apple from a banana?”
- Ask: “What is something a machine got wrong for you?”
- Look at a toy or app together and talk about whether it follows rules or learns from examples.
Creators, ages 9 to 11
- Ask: “How do we know if an AI is any good?” and listen for “test it on new examples”.
- Look at a picture or video together and play “real, edited or computer-made?” Check the source before deciding.
- Ask which mistake matters more for a smoke alarm: a false alarm or a miss.
Coders, ages 11 to 14
- Ask: “Can an AI be unfair? How could that happen?”
- Ask your teenager to explain why a language model can sound sure and still be wrong.
- Talk about when you would not want an AI to make a decision on its own.
Learning on their own
The For kids pages let children work through each lesson alone, mostly with paper and pencil. What helps most:
- Sit with younger children (5 to 7) the first time.
- Ask them to explain what they found out at the end of each lesson. Each lesson has a “show a grown-up” prompt.
- For the Python lessons (ages 11 to 14), help them install Python from python.org and keep their coding offline.
- No lesson needs a photo, a name or any personal information, so please keep it that way.
- Each lesson has an optional real-AI test. A grown-up types the prompts and the child directs and checks. Read the AI lab guide first.
Using AI tools at home
If your child uses AI tools elsewhere, a few habits help:
- Never type names, school, address, passwords or photos of faces into an AI tool.
- Check any AI answer against a trusted source before believing it.
- AI services set their own minimum ages. For example, ChatGPT is not meant for under-13s, Claude.ai is for ages 18 and over, and Google says Gemini accounts for under-13s are not available in the UK. Check the current rules before your child uses one.
- Encourage your child to say when AI helped with their work.
Still being built
Class codes for teachers and a classifier tool are planned but not ready yet. This page will say so when they arrive.
Questions parents ask
Is it really free?
Yes, today. All the lessons are free to use and there are no adverts. If we ever add paid options, we will say so clearly before asking for any payment.
Can my child sign up by themselves?
No. Only a parent or carer can create an account. You create your child’s username and password, and you can reset or delete them at any time.
What do you store about my child?
A nickname you choose, a username, a password (stored in scrambled form, so we cannot read it), a stage, an avatar and which lessons they have marked as finished. Nothing else. We ask you not to use a real name.
Do children chat with an AI?
Not on this site, which has no AI chat. Children learn by teaching a small machine in their own browser and by working on paper. Each lesson also has an optional real-AI test, where a grown-up types the prompts on their own account (ChatGPT, Claude or Gemini) and the child directs, reads the answers and checks them. Read the AI lab guide for the rules.
Do you collect pictures of my child?
No. Nothing on this site takes pictures, and lessons use drawings and objects, never faces.
Does my child need to know coding?
No. Explorers, Builders and Creators need none. The Coders course is easier with some Python.
Is it part of the school curriculum?
It supports computing and digital literacy now, and is written with the direction of the national curriculum review in mind. The current curriculum does not yet set out AI content. We will update the lessons when the new curriculum is final.