Is AI Helping Your Child Think or Just Helping Them Finish?
Raising Capable, Independent Thinkers in the Age of AI
- Thursday, November 19, 2026
- 7:00–8:00 PM EST
- Davis Library | Bethesda, Maryland
Free admission. Registration requested.
When AI Can Do the Work, What Happens to the Learning?
AI can help children complete homework, write essays, and solve problems. But how do we make sure they’re still developing the thinking behind the work?
Join Futurise Edu for a free, interactive parent session exploring what children need to develop in a world where AI can do more and more of the producing.
Discover practical ways to help your child think critically, make meaning, create with intention, and use tools responsibly, ensuring technology supports their thinking rather than replaces it.
This session is designed to be engaging, practical, and accessible. No technical knowledge or prior experience with AI is required.
This Session Is for You If…
Parents and caregivers of elementary and middle school students.
- You’re wondering how AI is changing the way your child learns.
- You want your child to become a capable, independent thinker.
- You’re unsure when AI is helpful and when it may be doing too much.
- You want practical strategies for supporting learning at home.
- You’re thinking about the skills and capacities your child will need in an uncertain future.
Whether your child is already using AI or hasn’t started yet, this conversation is for you.
About Futurise Edu
Futurise Edu helps schools, educators, and families rethink what learning should develop in a world where technology can increasingly do the producing.
Founded by educators Julia Ewart and Rachel Lugo, Futurise focuses on the human capacities students need to understand themselves and others, think critically, make meaning, create with intention, and learn and adapt.
Our guiding belief is simple:
Technology should support human thinking, not replace it.
Julia Ewart
Co-Founder & Director of Strategy and Innovation
Rachel Lugo
Co-Founder & Director of Learning and Research
Keep the Thinking Going
What does it look like when children have the opportunity to put these capacities into practice?
At Human Impact Lab, students tackle meaningful challenges, collaborate with others, explore possibilities, test ideas, and reflect on their learning.
Our summer programs are designed to help children develop the human capacities that matter in school and beyond.
Registration info for summer 2027 coming soon, but mark your calendar:
- June 14–18Location TBD
- June 21–25St. Andrew's Episcopal School, Potomac MD
- June 28–July 2St. Andrew's Episcopal School, Potomac MD
- August 2–6St. Andrew's Episcopal School, Potomac MD
- August 23–27Location TBD
Want to know when registration opens?
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Bring This Conversation to Your School
The questions we’re exploring aren’t just for families. They’re questions every school community should be asking.
What do we want students to develop? How do our teaching practices and assessments support that development? And how should AI fit into the learning experience?
Futurise Edu partners with school leaders and educators to develop a shared philosophy of learning that guides decisions about teaching, assessment, and intentional AI use.
If you’d like to bring this conversation to your school community, we’d love to connect.
Is AI Helping Your Child Think or Just Helping Them Finish?
- Thursday, November 19, 2026
- 7:00–8:00 PM EST
- Davis Library, Meeting Room
6400 Democracy Boulevard
Bethesda, MD 20817
Free admission. Registration requested.