I built an AI-tutor for my homeschooled kid. It works.

Yesterday, an ex-teacher gave the homeschooled kid community a museum tour. At the beginning of the tour, she said: "Oh, wow. Homeschool. Can you manage real life? Do you even have a future?". It triggered me. It is not the system that is slow but the people in it.

For example. The oldest learner in our AI workshops was 65 years old, and she was amazed about the AI tool's capabilities and said she would go all in and learn how to use it in her work. She is 65!! Then again – one of our kids is in 10th grade, and the school said that students who use AI will be expelled. But my homeschooled 6th grader has an AI lesson daily and prompts better than some grownups.

The thing is – the 10th grader must be competitive in the workforce in 2-3 years. The 6th grader has 6-7 years to go. Who will be better prepared for the future?

So, to the GPT teacher, I built for my homeschooled kid.

She also has a physical private teacher but studies with Lexter – an AI-powered homeschool teacher, a GPT. Even though Lexter is so intelligent, if she takes a picture of whatever homework ( from the workbook that is in Estonian!!), she can get all the answers.

But Lexter is prompted differently. It never answers but makes her analyze and think of how she could get the answer—encouraging her to solve it herself but providing explanations about the assignment in different ways.

I fed Lexter her curriculum and prompted it to make the lesson plans using Waldorf education principles and always put together real-life examples and lessons. For example, she will learn about investing, smart money, and entrepreneurial thinking in math. A fun fact is that the girl is educating her private teacher in the AI world, showing the things she is working on.

Thing is. Every teacher could build that in a few hours, share it with the class, and, by doing that, control how students use AI.

She also uses Slack to communicate with the teachers, monday.com to plan the tasks, and DeepL for translations. She builds hologram "machines" in her free time using TikTok tutorials. But then again, learning zoology in Tallinn Zoo educational programs with actual animals. She meditates using MindSpa.com and cooks with YouTube. She has a 4-day workweek, taking Friday to herself for self-care and personal development. And Mondays are so much more productive than in the old system. She will be fine in the new world.

These thoughts crossed my mind when I listened to the museum tour guide's comment. But I did not say that because I have been teaching my kid emotional intelligence, and sometimes, it is better not to answer, but I think we all know that these children will have their place in the new world, even though the future museum exhibit said otherwise.