Teach a parent or grandparent one AI tool — properly
Teaching is the ultimate test of understanding. Pick an elder in your family, find one real need AI can serve for them (voice messages to text, translating, writing applications, medicine reminders), and teach them across two sessions until they can do it alone.
Posted by The AI Internships
The work brief
- 01Find the need first — ask them what’s annoying in their phone/paperwork life. Don’t pick the tool before the need.
- 02Session 1: set it up together and walk them through it. Note every place they got stuck — those are your teaching gaps, not their fault.
- 03Make them a one-page cheat sheet in the language they’re comfortable in — draft it with AI, then cut it to words they actually use.
- 04Session 2 (a day or more later): watch them do it alone. Capture the moment it works.
What you’ll produce
Submission standard
Submit who you taught and the need, the two-session log, your cheat sheet text, and a photo/screenshot of their successful solo use. Include your AI workflow — how you used AI to draft the cheat sheet and what you cut for your learner. Add a photo of the physical cheat sheet you gave them, and make sure the solo-use photo shows your real learner on their own device.
Who you taught, and the real need you found
Short answerRequiredBoth sessions: where they got stuck, what you changed in your teaching, what happened solo
Written responseRequiredYour one-page cheat sheet, exactly as you gave it to them
Written responseRequiredPhoto or screenshot of their first successful solo use (blur anything private)
Photo must show your real learner using the actual tool on their own device (blur faces/private info) — not a staged screenshot.
Image uploadRequired
You’ll complete these inside your private workspace.
What you must submit as proof
This brief requires evidence an AI can’t fabricate.
Photo of the physical cheat sheet you gave them
A photo of the actual one-page cheat sheet you handed your learner, in the language they use. Cover their name if you wrote it on the sheet.
Image uploadRequired
Submissions without this evidence cannot be submitted.
Protect other people in your proof. Blur faces, names, phone numbers and email addresses before you upload, and refer to anyone you worked with by role or number ("Listener 1", "the stall owner"). Your proof is only ever used to check your work — it is never published, never appears on your certificate, and is never shown in your public portfolio.
How your work is evaluated
The passing benchmark is 70/100.
Real teaching
29%The log shows two real sessions with a real person’s real struggles.
Cheat sheet quality
14%The sheet fits the learner: their language, their phone, no jargon.
Teaching adaptation
29%The student changed their approach based on where the learner struggled.
Two real sessions, real artefacts
29%Auto-fail if the solo-use photo or the physical cheat sheet look staged/generic, or the log reads invented with no real day-apart gap.
How we grade your AI usage
Using AI is the point — it’s the skill this certificate proves. You’ll answer three short questions about how you used it: what you asked, what was wrong with its first answer, and what you changed. Specific, honest answers score high. “I pasted the brief and submitted the answer” scores near zero.