AI-Powered Homework Support Systems: Using AI Tools Responsibly as a Tutor

AI-Powered Homework Support Systems shows you how to help your child use AI tools responsibly, as a tutor that helps kids learn rather than a shortcut to cheat. No tech knowledge needed: the ideas work with any AI chat tool, now and as the tools change.

What's inside

• What AI can and can't do: how AI tools work in plain words, where they shine, and where they're confidently wrong.
• Set up for safe use: age rules, accounts and privacy, the homework spot, and a family AI agreement.
• A tutor, not a ghostwriter: the difference between helping and doing, and how to ask AI to teach instead of answer.
• Check it, credit it: a four-step fact-check and how to be honest with teachers about AI use.
• By age and subject: what good AI help looks like for younger children, tweens and teens, and in maths, reading, writing, languages, science and history.
• 20 tutor prompts ready to copy and adapt.
• 9 printable planners: family AI agreement, homework session planner, cut-out tutor prompt cards, learning log, "did I learn it?" self-check, fact-check worksheet, weekly homework planner, school AI rules record, and a "My AI rules" page for children.

The details

• PDF, 32 pages, A4
• Planner pages print well in colour or black and white
• Instant digital download. Nothing is posted.

Please note: schools have different rules about AI, and AI tools and their age limits change. Always follow your child's school and each tool's terms. This guide shares general information, not legal, technical or educational advice.