AI and Technology
It is already in their hands. The question is what they do with it.
Children are using AI right now. For homework, for creative projects, for social life, for questions they don’t want to ask a teacher. Most of them have no idea how it works, where the outputs come from, or what it means for their own thinking.
Schools are caught between two bad options. Ban the tools and pretend they don’t exist. Or let children figure it out alone and hope for the best. Neither works.
NextGen gives schools a third option. Structured, age-appropriate learning that helps children use technology confidently, critically, and ethically.
What children learn
How AI works
Children learn what AI is and how it works. Not at a PhD level. At the level that matters for their lives. How models are trained. Where bias enters. What AI is good at and where it falls apart.
AI as thinking partner
They learn to use AI as a thinking partner, not a shortcut. How to explore ideas, improve drafts, analyse information, and create things that are genuinely theirs, with full visibility of what is human and what is assisted.
The bigger questions
What does it mean when a tool can write for you. What happens to your own skills when you stop practising them. Who benefits from these systems and who is left out. What responsible use actually looks like.
How they work on it
Children don’t sit through lectures about AI. They use it inside real projects. They write with it, create with it, analyse with it, and then step back and examine what happened. They compare what they produced with AI to what they produced without it. They discuss what changed. They learn to be honest about the role the tool played.
They work with peers from other European countries, comparing how AI is used and understood in different cultures. They discover that not everyone sees these tools the same way, and that those differences matter.
Every activity comes with clear agreements about when and how AI can be used. Teachers receive guidance on how to facilitate these conversations. No technical expertise required.
Why this matters now
The EU AI Act made AI literacy a legal obligation in February 2025. The OECD and European Commission AI Literacy Framework arrives in its final form in 2026. Schools are expected to prepare children for a world shaped by AI, but most have no structured way to do it.
NextGen provides that structure. Not as a standalone computer science module. As part of how children learn about everything else. AI is woven into the journeys on climate, on social change, on identity. Because that is how it exists in real life. Not in a silo. Everywhere.
Be part of the first wave
We are forming partner schools and country partners now, ahead of the 2026 Erasmus+ submission. Whether you are a school, funder, or education organisation, there is a role for you.