AI for Families

AI for Families

Out Now 🎉 AI for Families: Ultimate Guide to Mastering AI
Excited to share my new book (available now on Amazon) and thoughts on how to help kids and families survive and thrive in our new AI-driven world.
 • Shannon Kimberly Edwards
Elite Athlete and Physician-in-Training Felicia Pasadyn on Dreaming Big in Age of AI
After achieving a time at the NYC Marathon that nabbed her a spot at the 2028 Olympic Trials, the remarkable Felicia Pasadyn shares how it's about…
 • Shannon Kimberly Edwards
AI Isn’t Eroding Critical Thinking Skills. We Are.
Social media rewards fast, reactive thinking. AI does not. The real risk isn’t AI itself, it’s entering into this new era without the mental habits…
 • Shannon Kimberly Edwards
Welcome to The Year of AI in Schools, Are you Ready?
Now that kids are back in the classroom, setting up accounts, and reviewing rules (and possibly some new ones) it's probably becoming clear that this…
 • Shannon Kimberly Edwards
The AI Lesson in Stranger Things
It's rare that a show can capture the attention of kids and adults alike. But the magic of Stranger Things is its rare cross-generational appeal and…
 • Shannon Kimberly Edwards
AI-Related News That Surprised Me This Week
Even with many hours of AI research under my belt, and a portion of each day writing about technology, there is much that still shocks me. And we should…
 • Shannon Kimberly Edwards
AI Career Uncertainty: From First Jobs to Late Career Pivots, We're All in it Together
The work world has been thrown into chaos thanks to new AI-driven innovation. And now parents and kids are facing career uncertainty together — from…
 • Shannon Kimberly Edwards
Why Worry About Child Data Privacy and TikTok: The Full Story
With 170m TikTok users in the US & House bipartisan support for taking a hardline on ByteDance, the facts need to be laid out more clearly, so a special…
 • Shannon Kimberly Edwards
Curious Case of the Olfactory PhD and a Big Social Media Stink
Cambridge instructor Dr. Ally Louks had no idea what was in store when she proudly displayed her completed thesis recently, but there is a lesson in…
 • Shannon Kimberly Edwards
What I Learned at Netflix, and Felt About Anora: An Oscars AI Parable
There was a technology story that was a bit more under-the-radar at the 2025 Oscars, but it's a lesson worth digging into…
 • Shannon Kimberly Edwards
The Economics of Social Media Division and Impact on our Digital Wellbeing
How digital media profits from our anger and distorts our worldview, and why families need to reclaim a balanced perspective to prepare kids for the…
 • Shannon Kimberly Edwards
We Can't Debate AI in Schools if We Aren't Clear About the WHAT, WHY, and HOW
Without a definition of the type of AI we are talking about in edtech and school discussions, or a well-defined articulation of family concerns, it's…
 • Shannon Kimberly Edwards
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