Most adults are in the very early stages of grasping how to use artificial intelligence. The Lego Group thinks that children need to build their own learning path to understand the fast-evolving technology.

On Monday, the Danish toy maker debuted a new computer science and AI curriculum for K–8 classrooms, Lego’s first foray into AI that comes more than three years after the debut of OpenAI’s ChatGPT chatbot. The Lego Education Computer Science & AI kits include Lego bricks and other interactive hardware components, as well as online education materials intended to take children from the beginning stages of AI literacy through hands-on experimentation.

Debuting in classrooms this April, Lego says each package will cost $339.95 and is designed for groups of four students.

Lego says 90% of kids want to learn more about how to use AI, but two-thirds feel left out of the AI conversation, according to a survey of 800 students ages 8 to 14 across the U.S., Germany,........

© Fast Company