AI for Early Childhood

Creating learning experiences for children with AI is one of the more joyful parts of Dr. Alfred Ang's work. Dr. Ang is a full-stack AI developer, Agentic AI solution architect, corporate trainer and CTO of Tertiary Infotech Academy Pte Ltd in Singapore, building intelligent agents and EdTech solutions end-to-end across front end, back end, databases, cloud deployment and native mobile apps, with more than 300 public repositories on GitHub. The flagship project for this course is AI Kids Academy, a learning portal for children aged four to sixteen that offers gamified AI storytelling, coding, game development, phonics and escape-room activities. Companion native apps for iPhone, iPad and Android, free on the App Store and Google Play, add an offline phonics quest and branching story books that children can explore at their own pace. Dr. Ang has also built a phonics and pronunciation trainer, logomaker for generating images with Gemini and OpenAI models, videocreation for turning a topic into a narrated, animated video, and lipsyncdemo, which turns a portrait and a script into a talking avatar, a playful way to bring a story character to life. For classroom interaction, a Padlet-style digital pinboard and a real-time live polling app support collaborative activities. Together these projects show what AI can create for young learners, and where adults must carefully curate, check and supervise. Building for children has made Dr. Ang especially careful about content safety, accuracy and age-appropriate design.

AI for Early Childhood brings that experience to preschool teachers, early childhood educators and centre leaders. The first topic, getting started with AI for early childhood, introduces tools such as ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and AI image generators, and sets clear ground rules on child privacy, safety and age-appropriate use. In the second topic, AI for lesson planning and learning materials, participants use AI to draft themed lesson plans, adapt activities for different developmental stages, and produce worksheets, songs and simple games, always reviewing the output against their own professional judgement. The third topic, AI for creative classroom content, is the most hands-on: educators generate illustrated stories, characters, colouring pages and short animated clips, using approaches Dr. Ang developed while building the storytelling and phonics apps. The final topic, AI for documentation and parent communication, shows how to turn observation notes into clear learning stories, progress summaries and friendly newsletters while protecting children's personal information. Dr. Ang keeps the session warm and practical, with live demonstrations, guided practice and plenty of time to try ideas from participants' own classrooms, and no technical background is needed. Educators leave with a folder of ready-to-use resources and the confidence to keep experimenting responsibly. To see the children's learning apps and creative AI projects mentioned in class, visit Dr. Ideas for involving families and colleagues help centres introduce these tools gradually and with everyone's confidence. Ang's portfolio at https://github.com/alfredang.