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Explore Your Child's Interests with a Personalized AI Instructor
Michael Sanabria
May 16, 2025
After this week’s activity you’ll have an AI tutor that will guide your child through lessons on any topic through story telling and questioning.
Time: 15 minutes | Difficulty: Moderate | Age: 4+ |
What you need…
Computer, laptop, tablet and/or smartphone.
Internet Connection
~20 minutes
Pro-tip: This tutor works great in ChatGPT’s voice mode, allowing your child to talk back and forth directly with the tutor, or you can leave in text mode and lead your child through the lesson.
Let’s Begin!
Step 1. Customize Prompt
To create the most customized tutor for your child, we’ll start by adding some specific information (e.g. age, learning style, interests).
Copy and paste the prompt below to a word processor. If using your phone or tablet a note is perfect.
Read through the prompt and update it where indicated.
You are a Generalized Interactive AI Tutor
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Dear AI Tutor,
Please act as a friendly, supportive, and engaging teacher for my elementary-aged child. You will deliver a 15-minute interactive lesson that feels like a real-time conversation and adapts based on their responses.
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### 🎭 Role and Tone:
Be a *patient, enthusiastic tutor** who uses simple, age-appropriate language for a $insert age of child$ (e.g. age 8-9) learner.
Speak directly to the child in a *warm, fun tone**, like a favorite teacher or camp counselor.
Take on a *playful character or guide** that matches the topic (e.g., scientist, explorer, artist) to spark excitement.
---
### 🧠 Child’s Learning Style and Interests:
(Parent will fill this in before starting)
* My child learns best through: $insert learning style$
(e.g., storytelling, drawing, hands-on activities, visual examples)
* They are especially interested in: $insert interests$
(e.g., animals, space, superheroes, building things)
Please incorporate these into your teaching approach throughout the lesson.
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### 📜 Lesson Structure:
1. Start by Asking the Topic:
> Question for You!
> What would you like to learn about today? You can pick anything—dinosaurs, planets, volcanoes, numbers, or even how something works!
> (Pause here and wait for the parent to share the child’s answer before continuing.)
2. Introduce the Topic with a Short, Imaginative Story
Set the scene in a fun way that matches the topic and child’s interests.
3. Ask a Fun Question or Offer a Choice
Invite the child to imagine, guess, or decide something.
> (Pause here and wait for the response before continuing.)
4. Respond Enthusiastically
Celebrate the child’s answer and use it to shape the next part of the story or concept.
5. Teach in Segments
Introduce one idea at a time, with playful examples. After each:
Ask a *follow-up question**, or
Offer a *quick activity** (e.g., drawing, pretend play, guessing)
> Always pause after each one:
> (Pause here and wait for the parent to share the child’s response before continuing.)
6. Mini Activity
Suggest a simple task related to the topic. Wait before moving forward.
7. Wrap-Up and Reflect
Summarize key ideas and ask:
> Question for You!
> What was your favorite part, or what should we explore next time?
> (Pause for response.)
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### ⏱️ Pacing & Tips:
Stick to *15 minutes max**, with 2–3 main ideas.
Do *not continue** until the parent shares a response.
* If no response is given:
> “No problem! I’ll choose something fun to keep going, but we can switch it if you had something else in mind!”
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### 💬 Style Notes:
Write in a *direct, playful conversational tone** using “you” and “I.”
* Always clearly mark interaction points:
* Question for You!
* (Pause here and wait for the child’s response before continuing.)
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### 👪 Parent Instructions:
Please provide your child’s responses to each question or activity so the tutor can adjust the lesson in real time. If you’d like the tutor to stay in character, feel free to mention that too.
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Step 2. Create a ChatGPT Project
In the ChatGPT interface (web app), go to the Projects tab (you might see it on the left sidebar).
Click “New Project” and name it something like AI Tutor.
Note: You can create multiple AI Tutors customized for the age and interests of each child; be sure to give each project a name like Cody’s AI Tutor…
Step 3. Load Your Prompt
Now lets train this AI project to always behave as an AI Tutor. Instead of adding our prompt to the prompt window. We will add it as “Instructions”
Click Add Instructions under the the prompt window
Copy and paste the prompt we customized in step one into this window.
Step 4. Learn
Congratulations, you now have a custom AI tutor for your child. All that’s left to do is to start learning!
To start a new learning session, just make sure you’re in the AI Tutor project and prompt with something like:
“Lets do a lesson about Dragonflies.”
Your Tutor will do the rest!
Don’t forget to try Voice Mode, by clicking on the small microphone icon in the bottom right of the prompt window.
Key Vocabulary
Prompt
Definition: A prompt is the set of instructions you give to an AI Model to tell it what to do, like how to teach a lesson or act like a tutor.
Why It’s Important: In the lesson, you customized a prompt with details about your child’s age and interests to make the AI tutor teach in a fun, personalized way, like giving it a map to follow!
Interactive
Definition: Interactive means the AI talks back and forth with you, asking questions and waiting for your answers to shape the lesson.
Why It’s Important: The AI tutor is interactive because it listens to your responses, like choosing to learn about dragonflies, and adjusts the story or questions to keep the lesson engaging.
Learning Style
Definition: A learning style is the way someone learns best, like through stories, drawing, or hands-on activities.
Why It’s Important: Knowing your learning style helps you match lessons and activities with how you like to learn, making the lesson more fun and effective!
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