Each Child’s Real AI Superpowers are Curiosity, Discernment, and a call to Co-Create  As teachers, our goal is to move learners from merely "knowing" to "doing" and "evaluating." Encourage them to use AI to build knowledge, not as a shortcut for thinking. Let's empower the next generation to be curious, discerning, critically conscious, and creative, the essential human anchors for a democratic, equitable, and just future.

UNESCO International Day of Education 2026 (24 January) theme “The power of youth in co-creating education” recognises the role of youth as agents of change, how might we interrupt that into our schools and classrooms, and other educational institutions.

Artificial Intelligence and Constructionism "The role of the teacher is to create the conditions for invention rather than provide ready-made knowledge" Seymour Papert 1993

An AI Policy is Crucial for Each School - the rapid integration of AI into various aspects of society, including education, makes it absolutely vital for schools to develop and implement comprehensive AI policies. Ensuring Responsible and Ethical Use with an AI Policy. Providing Clarity and Consistency with an AI Policy. Maximising Educational Benefits with an AI Policy. Mitigating Risks and Challenges with an AI Policy.

Education & AI - schools could use AI to be relevant, focused and sustainable

Exploring the SAMR model and AI, how AI supports teachers and learners at each level of the SAMR model.

African AI Assessment Collaboration project invites teachers, lecturers, etc. to share ideas about how they are using AI for assessment.

Unplugged coding in South Africa. Exploring the benefits of teaching computational thinking to little children

Are you discussing Leap Year with your learners? Thursday 29th February 2024 is Leap Day, an extra day in calendar.

Teach children about organ donation. Relate to UNSDGs 3 & 4 showing it's a real-world problem that is actually easy to solve.

We should teach perseverance to build learners' self-confidence. Finding the balance of not giving up, while not going to the extreme.

The world is changing, is our schooling? Explore ideas - see schooling differently! Join the conversation!

Help learenrs to be safe online, but regularly discussing safety tips. Here are a few ideas to use in your lessons.

Computational Thinking as a Methodology, get your learners to be problem-solvers.

AI inventions keep developing. How do we as educators address this complex issue? Eg. LaMDA2 with Google Let's explore proactively.

Create a learning environment, in your school garden often the first impression of visitors see. A resource we don’t use enough.

Using Augmented Reality (AR) in lessons to build context, content knowledge and have fun.

Using AI (artifical intelligence) in lessons, expose learners to a range of tools, discuss ethics and responsibility.

Think about pedagogy when integrating 4IR tech. How can immersive technology support teaching & learning? Why integrate tech with pedagogy?

Africa Tech Radio, asked Karen Walstra to participate in a 4-part "The Classroom Series", discussing technology for online education.