A Gemini and GEM course that helps children aged 8–12 and parents build safe, practical AI skills.

  • Help children judge whether AI answers are reliable
  • Learn to give AI clear instructions
  • Build and test reusable GEMs
  • Develop fact-checking, privacy and safe-creation habits

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Course highlights

Judge before using Children learn to check AI answers instead of accepting them automatically.
See AI limitations
Separate facts, guesses and wrong answers.
Build checking habits
Confirm important information with other sources.
Use data safely
Know which personal details should not be entered into AI.
From prompts to GEMs Save effective methods and reduce repeated prompting.
  • Describe goals and requirements clearly.
  • Turn common instructions into a GEM.
  • Use test questions to find weaknesses.
  • Share and improve work through the Prowis GEM Library.
Learn as a family Parents understand how children use AI, while children build sound habits.

Each family completes one GEM and one AI project, then explains its purpose and limitations.

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Session 1 | AI capabilities and boundaries
Understand what AI can do and when it may be wrong.
  • Answer reliability experiments
  • Hallucinations and fact-checking
  • Privacy and safety boundaries
Session 2 | Prompt foundations
Write clear instructions with goals, context and limits.
  • Good and weak questions
  • Prompt structure
  • Compare and improve outputs
Session 3 | Build a GEM
Turn useful prompts into reusable AI skills.
  • Role and task settings
  • Process and output requirements
  • Build a first family GEM
Session 4 | Test and create
Test the GEM and complete a family AI project.
  • Test and revise the GEM
  • Image or story creation
  • Share uses and limitations
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