Skill Builders
The nine Judgment Supervisory Skills (JSS) that separate children who direct AI from those who are directed by it. Each comes with a clear explanation, observable signals, and a concrete family activity.
Cognitive Agency
Knowing what you actually want — and forming that into clear intent — before you hand anything to AI.
Steering & Calibration
Recognizing when AI is drifting off course and correcting it — without losing the thread of what you were trying to do.
Critical Thinking
Interrogating AI outputs — and your own assumptions — before accepting them as true.
Knowledge Strategy
Knowing how you know what you know — and deciding what's worth keeping in your own head.
Interdisciplinary Thinking
Bringing the right framework from the right field — even when the problem doesn't come labeled.
Analogical Thinking
Recognizing when something you already understand maps onto something you don't — and using that bridge.
Human-Sensory-Specific Perspective
Grounding decisions in lived, embodied human experience — what AI cannot access and cannot simulate.
Sense-Making
Building a coherent, working picture of reality from incomplete, conflicting, and ambiguous information.
Meta-Learning
Learning from experience in ways that actually improve your future judgment — not just your future performance.
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