EdTech · AI literacy · Digital safety
Helping children
find their way
with technology.
I’m Tim Pyles. Digital learning leader, educator, and illustrator. I help schools and families design for children’s relationships with technology, not only manage the risks.
Notes from my classrooms and the adults who work alongside children.
How to use this site
Start with what
you came to find.
Start with a resource, a question, or a story. If you have a particular role in mind, use the route links above.
Practice
Workshops, classroom activities, and ideas for conversations with families.
Open the resources02 / FOLLOW AN IDEAIdeas
Questions I am exploring, the ideas behind my work, and the research I am reading.
Read the research03 / ENTER A STORYStudio
Characters, illustration, Digital Dilon, and creative work that makes technology easier to talk about.
See the creative practiceEdTech & innovation leadership
EdTech leadership
in practice.
Curriculum, coaching, safeguarding, and family partnership. My work connects strategy with the people who put it into practice.
Explore the leadership work01 / From the field
Stories from the classroom.
LEARNING BEGINS WITH RELATIONSHIPSAI Literacy Starts Younger Than the Frameworks Think
An AI companion toy I called AI-Labubu made me think again about what young children notice.
Read on LinkedInThe Most Future-Ready Technology Class I Built Was About Media, Not Machines
I built a Creative Media course around making first. Here is what happened.
Read on LinkedInThey Are Not Growing Up With Technology. They Are Growing Up Alongside It
A conversation in Beijing changed how I think about growing up alongside technology.
Read on LinkedInZero to Hero.
A practical starting point for a whole-school safeguarding conversation.
02 / From thinking to doing
Plan your school’s
next safeguarding step.
The workshop companion brings together a school diagnostic, evidence and resources, and a 30-day planning tool. Use it to start a conversation and agree what happens next.
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The idea behind the work
A little more about me“Children need digital and AI literacy lessons tailored to them, not a thinned-down version of the information we want them holding by the end of elementary school.”Tim Pyles · The Dalmatian in the Tech Corner: Teaching AI & Digital Literacy Before the Pop-up Appears