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🎲 Little Language Models: Empowering Children to be Future AI Modelers

MASH* (Manuj Dhariwal + Shruti Dhariwal)

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Little Language Models is a co-creative AI education microworld for children (ages 8–16) within our CoCo platform. It is especially designed to be developmentally appropriate for young learners, helping them explore and engage early on with the foundational ideas underlying Generative AI systems—in ways that are co-creative, playful, and personally meaningful for them. The work also highlights a shift towards introducing 'Probabilistic Thinking (PT)' as a foundational fluency for children in the AI era, in addition to Computational Thinking (CT).

Co-imagineered by MASH (Manuj Dhariwal + Shruti Dhariwal) | PhD Candidates, MIT Media Lab

Winners, 2023-24 Global EdTech Tools Prize supported by Gates Foundation, OpenAI, Ballmer Group, and others.

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Watch the short video below to see the tool in action + Learn more about the new ideas on AI education in the article linked below.

Future will NOT be shaped by AI; it will be shaped by the modelers of AI.

If children are not empowered to develop creative fluency with the foundational ideas underlying AI, we risk raising a generation that—instead of modeling AI systems in the future—might end up being modeled by them.

We believe it’s essential for young people today to not just learn how to ‘use’ the new magical AI tools. They should also have access to tools that help make AI un-magical for them—by letting them explore and engage early on with the powerful ideas that underlie these powerful technologies.

💡Introducing “Probabilistic Thinking” as a new foundational fluency for children in the era of AI

In any era, the most important ideas for children to explore are...

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#artificial intelligence #kids #learning + teaching