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ai literacy,
disguised as a game

pixeldash teaches kids 6 to 16 how to think with ai, not just use it. parents stay in the loop. kids stay in the flow.

built by parents. designed with educators. early access opening soon.

three tiers. one mission.

every kid moves at their own pace. pixeldash meets them where they are.

hands-on projects where kids build with ai tools, test their assumptions, and learn to ask better questions.

build a chatbot

design a chatbot personality, set its rules, and test it with friends. see what breaks.

fact check challenge

give ai a topic, read its answer, and find the mistakes. first to spot three errors wins.

remix the news

take a real headline, rewrite it with ai help, and compare tone, bias, and accuracy.

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what they'll learn

  • critical thinking: evaluating ai output before trusting it
  • iteration: improving results through better prompts and feedback
  • bias: how training data shapes what ai says and does not say
  • collaboration: working with ai as a tool, not a replacement

how it works

three steps. zero complexity.

1

kid picks a quest

every quest is a real problem. not a tutorial. not a quiz. a thing worth building.

2

they build, break, and debug

kids use ai as a thinking partner, not an answer machine. they learn by doing.

3

parents see what clicked

a weekly digest shows what they explored, what stuck, and what to talk about at dinner.

a parent layer that isn't creepy

parents get a weekly digest of what their kid explored, which concepts clicked, which need reinforcement, and suggested offline conversations to have at dinner. think of it as co-learning, not monitoring.

what your kid explored this week

  • asked an ai to help debug a sorting algorithm
  • explored how image recognition works with a photo classifier
  • built a chatbot that recommends books

preview of the weekly parent digest

trusted by parents at

Google
Stripe
YC
Stanford
MIT
Khan Academy
OpenAI
Anthropic
Figma
Notion
Duke
NYU
Duolingo
Shopify
Google
Stripe
YC
Stanford
MIT
Khan Academy
OpenAI
Anthropic
Figma
Notion
Duke
NYU
Duolingo
Shopify

what kids are building

spark

the weather bot

mila, age 7

asked an ai to explain weather, then built a bot that gives outfit suggestions based on the forecast

ignite

story remix machine

kai, age 10

trained a simple model to rewrite fairy tales in different genres

build

bias detector

ava, age 14

built a tool that flags biased language in news headlines using sentiment analysis

spark

pet translator

noah, age 8

designed a pretend pet translator and learned how ai guesses meaning from context

ignite

recipe generator

zara, age 11

created an ai that suggests dinner recipes based on what's left in the fridge

build

deepfake spotter

leo, age 15

trained an image classifier to tell real photos from ai-generated ones

what parents and educators are saying

my daughter asked me at dinner what a 'training set' was. i didn't expect that from a game.

priya m.

parent of 9-year-old, brooklyn

i've tried every coding app out there. this is the first one my son didn't abandon after a week.

david l.

parent of 12-year-old, austin

the weekly digest actually tells me something useful. not just 'your child completed 3 lessons.'

sarah k.

parent of 7-year-old, london

my students started asking better questions after two weeks. not just 'what's the answer' but 'how would the model know that.'

ms. chen

5th grade teacher, san francisco

it fills a gap we've been struggling with. ai literacy isn't in the curriculum yet, but it should be.

james r.

middle school cs teacher, toronto

the tier system works. my 6-year-olds and my 14-year-olds are both engaged, which almost never happens.

dr. okafor

education researcher, duke university

frequently asked questions

raise a kid who understands the machine.

not just one who types into it.

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