BFD AI Readiness Snapshot Say hi

A snapshot for teachers

How AI-ready is your classroom?

Nine questions, five minutes, one honest snapshot. You'll see where you stand on the three things the Brookings report says matter most, and get one thing to try next.

Take the snapshot No sign-up. Share only if you choose.
9 questions 5 minutes 1 next step

The report, in two minutes

Brookings asked 505 people in 50 countries about kids and AI. The answer wasn't comfortable.

In January 2026 the Brookings Institution's Global Task Force on AI in Education, led by Rebecca Winthrop, published a year-long study. They talked with 505 students, teachers, parents, leaders, and technologists across 50 countries, and read more than 400 studies.

The report concluded that, on the trajectory it studied, the risks of generative AI in children's education outweighed the benefits.

The risks land on what matters most. Students' ability to learn. Their wellbeing. Their trust in teachers and in each other. Their safety and privacy.

It isn't a report that says stop. It says it's not too late to bend the arc, and it gives everyone who touches a classroom twelve recommendations under three pillars, with one ask: pick at least one and move it in the next three years.

Prosper

Use AI so students and teachers thrive now. More time for teaching, more ways to learn, and tools that teach rather than tell.

Prepare

Get students ready for a world shaped by AI. How it works, where it fails, when to leave it alone, and the human skills it can't replace.

Protect

Guard what AI can wear down. Attention, wellbeing, trust, privacy, and a child's own thinking.

Nice report. Now what?

A report tells systems what to do. It can't tell you where you are. That's what the snapshot is for.

Take the snapshot

Source: Mary Burns, Rebecca Winthrop, Natasha Luther, Emma Venetis, and Rida Karim, Brookings Institution, Center for Universal Education. A new direction for students in an AI world: Prosper, prepare, protect (January 2026). The pillar summaries are ours in plain words. BFD is not affiliated with Brookings; the questions, scoring, and next steps are BFD’s interpretation, not a validated assessment.

What you get

Nine tiles. One shape. One next step.

Example snapshot. Brighter means more ready.

  • 1

    A score out of 36 and a shape

    Three tiles per pillar. You can be stronger in one pillar than another. The shape helps you see where to start.

  • 2

    One next step, not twelve

    We pick the move that lifts your lowest pillar. Three things you can do this month with no new tools to buy.

  • 3

    A snapshot you can share like a puzzle score

    Copy it into a text to a colleague, or send it to five teachers and compare notes.

For leaders and partners

One snapshot starts a conversation. Five bring more perspectives.

Send it to five teachers, then bring the results to us. We'll read them with you, show what's working in other systems, and help you choose the first move.

Want it with your name on it? Try the demo, then talk with Nelson about a version your organization can share.

Make it yours

Your name on the front. Your color on the button. Your contact at the end.

Button color

Demo. Changes show on this device only.

A note from Nelson

I built this after reading the report and thinking what you probably thought too: nice stats, now what? If you take the snapshot and want to talk about what comes next for your classroom or your school, say hi. No pitch, just a conversation.

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