It was 8:30 PM on a Tuesday. I was exhausted after a long day at work, scrolling through my phone while finishing dinner. A message popped up in our “Family WhatsApp Group”—a video of a famous politician making a shocking statement. My thumb hovered over the forward button. “Papa, fake hai wo. Deepfake. Look at the lips—they don’t sync.” I looked up. My 14-year-old son barely glanced up...
Your eight-year-old just asked Alexa to help with their math homework. Your teenager is using ChatGPT to brainstorm essay ideas. Your fifth-grader wants to know if AI will take over the world.
Let me tell you something I’ve learned after fifteen years in education: our students are already using AI. They’re asking ChatGPT to help with homework, generating art with DALL-E, and creating videos with tools we’ve never heard of. The question isn’t whether we should teach AI literacy—it’s how quickly we can start.
