Ken Kahn

I am very happy to announce that my book The Learner’s Apprentice: AI and the Amplification of Human Creativity launches today. It is about how anyone can use chatbots to create apps, adventures, illustrated stories, and more. cmkpress.com/product/learne…

Yesterday in an online course based upon my book, The Learner’s Apprentice, two school students presented impressive apps they co-created with AI. One was a 3D space game made by a 9 year old and the other an “everything” app for fellow students. docs.google.com/document/d/1UI…

I guided Claude and Gemini in the creation of Seymour Papert bots. Some of the Papert quotes they made up, so I managed to get Codex to carefully go through 22 papers to select good thought-provoking quotes to start the conversations. docs.google.com/document/d/1XB…

I built playful mockups of a version of the Mac Finder based upon animation principles as imagined in a 1988 paper. I asked three chatbots to create demos of this “Disney Finder”. docs.google.com/document/d/1IP…

Today I easily built an extension with Claude that alters the fonts on web pages to match the age of the words. docs.google.com/document/d/1Eg…

I created a Lemmings-like game where players control creatures by entering rules in English. Claude helped me brainstorm the design and implemented the code. GPT Codex tested the game and worked with Claude to improve it. docs.google.com/document/d/1qj…

I created over a dozen artifacts based on my book, The Learner’s Apprentice, using Google’s NotebookLM. I created these in nine different formats (videos, quizzes, podcasts, …). NotebookLM is impressive. docs.google.com/document/d/1oV…

A 5-year old’s adventures as a unicorn who meets fairies, a mermaid, and an initially very friendly shark by using an app I co-created with Gemini. docs.google.com/document/d/1NB…

I found that GPT-5.3-Codex can design, implement, test, and debug a multimedia game for a 5-year old. My job was mostly giving it permissions. docs.google.com/document/d/12G…

I recently asked different chatbots to create novel web games. Here I asked them to create games that are both original and FUN. 10 games of varying quality resulted. docs.google.com/document/d/1Cr…

After discovering a lack of novelty in yesterday’s LLM designed games I chatted with Claude about this. We came up with a 5-step prompt that worked well. docs.google.com/document/d/1yY…

I asked 3 chatbots “I’m curious how creative you can be. Please create a NOVEL AI-powered web game.” Ten games were produced that seem novel but investigations indicate maybe not so much. docs.google.com/document/d/12C…

After discussing with Claude the tension between vibe coding and computational thinking, Claude created a guiding prompt. I tested it and we iteratively improved it. docs.google.com/document/d/1C2…

@leonelm Sounds sensible. My post led to this interesting discussion on Facebook: facebook.com/ken.kahn.7/pos…

@toontalk They can, but there is a constant slope towards bullshit. So I adopted the role of AI-first feedback available to students at all times, and human curated for critical (but less frequent) occasions.

Perhaps LLMs can provide both formative and summative assessments when students do substantial creative projects with AIs and are asked to provide documentation of their processes as well as their projects. #heading=h.imhu2vw5lco4" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">docs.google.com/document/d/1te…

“Imagine that Cinderella, after returning from the ball, decided to create a multi-page website with images. How might it look? “ I asked Claude, Gemini, and ChatGPT. 3 very different websites emerged. docs.google.com/document/d/115…

I had moderate success comparing the abilities of a collection of agents and directly prompting LLMs when asked to rewrite a very short story. I realize to really explore this is a bigger effort than I’m prepared to make. docs.google.com/document/d/1p3…

Today I asked Claude Code to create a web page that recreates some animation demos I programmed 50 years ago. docs.google.com/document/d/1AP…

I experimented with using Claude Code to test and improve a game with nearly no input from me. It did very well. This is empowering, but probably is likely to reduce the learning resulting from co-creating apps with chatbots. docs.google.com/document/d/16B…

After building a multi-agent app based on Minsky’s Emotion Machine book docs.google.com/document/d/1gJ… I wondered how different the behavior might be if instead I asked a chatbot to simulate a conversation between personas. 3 chatbots simulated the 8 agents well docs.google.com/document/d/1te…

When I discovered the game didn’t work on phones, I told Claude and it fixed it right away. And added a full screen option.

I co-designed with Claude a game, then asked Claude in Chrome to make the game and generate the needed 30 media files using the Google AI Studio web page. I’m very happy with the resulting My Father’s Dragon game. docs.google.com/document/d/1zt…