AI for School Homefun pack · ages 12–14 · for parents · screens, together
Whose Feed Is It Anyway?
Twelve to fourteen is when the phone arrives and the bedroom door starts closing. This pack keeps you on the same side of it. Compare the family’s feeds and find out who the machine thinks each of you is, write the real bill for a “free” app, and make AI fails a dinner ritual you start, with your own fail first, every time.
Screens, together: the phone is the lab equipment here, used side by side and put down after. Curiosity, never a checkpoint; nothing in this pack is monitoring in disguise.
The same competences schools teach, in home language: maps to the AILit Framework (EU/OECD, 2026), Engage with AI 2, 4 and 7 and Manage AI 2, Basic to Intermediate, and UNESCO’s student framework (2024), AI foundations and human agency at Understand, safe and responsible use at Apply. The classroom cousin of this pack is The For You Machine.
What’s inside
Five activities, one stance
Every activity comes with the words to say, the eye-rolls to expect, and one conversation starter to let sink in afterwards. The stance they build: in this family we are curious about the machines together, and nobody is on trial.
Whose Feed Is It Anyway?
Phones on the table, feeds side by side: work out who the machine thinks each of you is, and how it decided. The portraits flatter nobody, which is half the fun.
20 min · sofa, phones out · Engage 4The Free App Bill
Price a “free” app properly: what it takes in attention, data and nudges, itemised into an actual invoice. Once a teenager has written the bill, “free” never sounds the same.
20 min · kitchen table · Engage 2AI Fail of the Week
A dinner ritual: everyone brings the week’s best AI failure, and yours goes first. Ten minutes of laughing at the machines does more than a term of warnings.
10 min · dinner table, weekly · Engage 2The Homework Line
“Could you do this bit yourself?” run as a negotiation over real homework: quiz-me and write-it-for-me are different animals, and your teenager learns to tell them apart.
15 min · homework desk · Manage 2The Two Private Lines
The private-things line and the worries-go-to-humans line, in scripts calibrated for an age that is allergic to lectures. Two minutes each, said once, remembered for years.
10 min · a quiet moment · Engage 7A dozen starters
Twelve conversation starters for the phone years, each with a direction of travel, none of them “we need to talk”.
1 min each · wheneverA taste of the pack“Your fail goes first, and pick a good one: the summary that invented a paragraph, the navigation that routed you through a field. A teenager who has watched a parent laugh at their own AI disasters will bring you theirs. That channel, kept open and kept funny, is worth more than any monitoring app you could install.”
From activity 3, “AI Fail of the Week”
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€9.99
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- Five complete activities with the words to say and the eye-rolls to expect
- A dozen conversation starters with directions for where each should land
- Lecture-free scripts for the private-things line and the worries-go-to-humans line
- Licensed for your own family at home
- Print-friendly: the whole pack prints from one button
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Licence: the pack is for the purchasing family’s home use. Please don’t redistribute or resell it; that is what keeps packs like this affordable. Teachers: the classroom version of these ideas is The For You Machine.
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