Safe and Empowering Use of AI For Children - The Mission of The GIANT Remix Program

AI technology is growing fast, and for many of us—especially parents—it can feel overwhelming. What does it mean for our kids’ creativity? Their problem-solving skills? Their future? At The GIANT Room, these questions have been at the center of our work for the past two years, and we’ve approached them with one priority in mind: helping children and families understand and use AI in a healthy, responsible, and empowering way.

In partnership with the Joan Ganz Cooney Center at Sesame Workshop and with support from the Robin Hood Learning + Technology Fund, we co-designed our GIANT Remix program alongside students, families, and educators in a NYC Title I public school district. For more than a year, our team has been visiting classrooms for 6–7 sessions each semester to build this work directly with students.

In these sessions, we start by asking children what they already know—and wonder—about AI. From there, students, teachers, and the GIANT team co-create a publication using AI alongside their science curriculum. Kids get hands-on experience with how AI works, what it does well, and where it makes mistakes—all through a playful, creative process.

We’re proud that this work was recently featured in Digital Promise’s National AI & Learning Framework as an evidence-based model. The GIANT Remix app allows students and educators to design their own publications - trading cards, informational books, graphic novels, postcards, and more- —while learning important AI literacy skills like giving clear instructions (prompt engineering), offering feedback, and recognizing that technology is not perfect.

We invite you to check out Digital Promises’ Evidence-Based Exemplar on the GIANT Remix. You may also read about their framework and their full report.

Student with their mission sheet

Teachers showing students an example of an AI mistake