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Interactive Tools

Four tools that do something specific, well.

Most of this site is for reading and discussing. These four pages are for doing — short, focused interactives that hand you a usable artifact in under ten minutes. Three are for educators; one is for parents. All are free, no login, no data collected beyond cookieless event counts.

For teachers

Thought Experiment Picker

Three quick questions about grade, time, and topic — three classroom-ready thought experiments that fit. Designed for the Sunday-night planning block.

Inputs
Grade band · Depth · Topic
Output
3 ranked experiments + direct links to the scene
Time
~90 seconds

For teachers & school leaders

AI Use Rubric

Score a proposed AI use across six dimensions — cognitive substitution, bias, privacy, authorship, equity, oversight — and get a go / discuss / redesign recommendation with the rationale.

Inputs
One AI use case + six 0–2 scores
Output
Verdict + rationale you can take into a leadership conversation
Time
~5 minutes

For school leaders

AI Policy Builder

Nine questions about your school's stance on AI yield a 1–2 page draft policy. A structured starting point for a board-ready document — not a finished policy.

Inputs
School name + 8 stance questions
Output
Markdown draft (copy or download .md)
Time
~10 minutes

For parents & caregivers

Family Conversation Generator

Pick your child's age and a topic about AI — homework, deepfakes, AI friends, privacy, creativity, the future of work. Get five short prompts that work at dinner or in the car.

Inputs
Age band + topic
Output
5 conversation prompts (copy-friendly)
Time
~30 seconds

How these fit together

Use the Picker when you have 20 minutes of class time and want a discussion-ready scenario. Use the Rubric when you're evaluating one specific AI use — a tool a vendor pitched, a workflow a teacher proposed, a use case a student asked about. Use the Policy Builder when your school needs an overall position, not a one-off decision. Use Family Conversations when you want your kid to talk first.

These four don't replace each other — they answer different questions. The Rubric ("should we?") feeds the Policy Builder ("what's our overall stance?"). The Picker ("what should I teach tomorrow?") sits upstream of the family conversation ("what does my kid think about what they learned?"). Most of this site supports them — they don't replace the reading; they're what comes next.