Using AI to design New Year's songs, create AI identity cards for cultural relics, and generate family Spring Festival documentaries... According to a report by Guangming Network on March 2nd, AI has become a new "partner" for some primary and secondary school students in their winter homework. Faced with these creative assignments, the parent group has exploded - some parents applaud and believe that this is a task that keeps up with the times, making children happy to learn and efficient! Some parents furrowed their brows: let AI do everything, what about children's imagination? When the "magic pen" of AI is handed over to children, concepts such as scores, abilities, and creativity suddenly become blurred. As a father said in a group chat, "When a child gets a high score on a video assignment generated by AI, is this score awarded to his ideas or to AI's technology? ”Parents' concerns may seem like they are afraid of their children cheating and losing their hands-on ability, but in reality, they are worried that in this era of "one click generation", children will lose their ability to ask questions and the courage to make mistakes. Some experts suggest that students who rely on AI to solve problems for a long time will have lower independent problem-solving abilities when faced with unfamiliar question types. When the answer comes too easily, children lose the agony of "holding back and thinking", and true thinking often arises from this torment. When I was a child learning to draw, my teacher always said that it's not important whether I draw like it or not, but whether I dare to draw or not is important. A piece of paper, a pen, even if drawn crookedly, is still 'my horse'. Nowadays, AI can instantly generate a perfect horse, but the process from scratch, from clumsiness to proficiency, has also been skipped with just one click. When we were young, we learned to type and surf the internet, and our parents were also anxious. AI is now the keyboard and network of this generation. ”Parents who support AI make sense. Perhaps the core of the problem is not the tool itself, but how we use it. In the report, a child adjusted his instructions seven or eight times in order to draw the flying horse in his heart. During this process, he not only learned how to operate AI, but also how to express his ideas one by one and repeatedly revise them. When parents transition from being "supervisors" to "partners", AI is no longer a "cheat tool" for taking shortcuts, but a "sharpening stone" for refining ideas. The real danger is not that the child uses AI, but that he only says to AI, 'Draw me a horse,' instead of asking, 'How can we make the wings of a horse both mythical and aerodynamic?'? In the era of AI, what people lack is never information, but the understanding, selection, and judgment of information, which requires a leap from "knowledge" to "insight". How to shift from "teaching children to remember answers" to "teaching them to ask questions", and from "pursuing perfect results" to "appreciating the thinking process" - this may be exactly where the focus of education in the AI era urgently needs to change. Faced with AI, parents don't have to worry or lie flat. Why not try three 'no's'. Instead of building a 'firewall', build a 'navigation device'. Instead of blindly blocking and prohibiting it, it's better to work with children to develop a 'AI usage convention' at home, such as how long to use it every day and what can be done. You can search for information and expand your thinking, but you can't directly ask for answers. Don't ask 'like it or not', ask more 'what do you think'. When a child uses AI to draw a horse, don't praise it for being "realistic" first. Instead, ask the child how the AI drew it and where the horse would run if it came back to life, and shift the focus from the result to the process. Not only meeting in the cloud, but also reuniting in the human world. Set aside "screen free time" every week to touch the texture of tree bark and smell the soil after rain. These real feelings are the soil of imagination and the life experiences that AI can never generate. The 'magic pen' of AI is in the hands of children, but the key is actually in the hands of us adults. It doesn't depend on how much we know about technology, but on how to protect the child's heart that dares to ask questions, is good at exploration, and has warmth. The future world will not lack AI that can draw perfect horses, but it will need people who dare to 'run wild'. (New Society)