Navigating AI in Homeschool: Tools, Tips, and Biblical Wisdom with Nancy Manos
Summary:
How can homeschooling parents harness the power of artificial intelligence (AI) to make their homeschool journeys more efficient, creative, and manageable? In this episode of Show Me Homeschool, host Erin is joined by longtime homeschooling leader and event planner Nancy Manos, who brings 20+ years of experience encouraging home-educating families. Nancy shares practical insights into how busy homeschool parents—and even their students—can utilize AI tools like ChatGPT and Claude to help brainstorm lesson plans, summarize information, automate tasks, and even solve everyday household challenges like meal planning and organization.
Throughout the conversation, Erin and Nancy dive into thoughtful discussion around the ethical use of AI, the importance of a strong foundation in critical thinking and biblical truth, and ways to ensure these technological tools are used wisely in home education. Nancy emphasizes how AI can serve as a productivity booster without diminishing the value of real books, hands-on activities, and authentic learning experiences.
Links & Resources Mentioned:
nancymanos.com – Nancy Manos’ website, including her blog and free homeschool resources.
ChatGPT – AI chatbot tool referenced for brainstorming, summarizing, and lesson planning.
Claude – AI tool mentioned for its user-friendly summarization and brainstorming capabilities.
Grok – Another AI chatbot discussed as a potentially helpful homeschool tool.
Social Media Marketing World – Learn more about the conference and its AI-focused sessions.
AI Business Society – Resource for learning about AI in business contexts, as referenced by Nancy.
Midjourney – AI image-generation tool briefly mentioned in the discussion.
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Transcript:
[00:00:00] Erin: Hello, welcome back to the Show Me Homeschool podcast. Today I have a wonderful friend of mine, Nancy Manson. Uh, we'll be doing, um, an interview talking about AI and how to use that in your homeschool. Uh, Nancy is a graduated homeschool mom of two. She taught her daughters from preschool through high school and found it to be a rich, rewarding and sometimes challenging experience.
[00:00:24] Nancy has served in homeschool leadership for more than 20 years and is passionate about encouraging. And equipping parents in the home education adventure. She's an event planner, graphic designer, homeschool speaker, and in her spare time, enjoys quilting, gardening, baking. Reading and spending time with her grandchildren.
[00:00:43] Nancy and her husband James, live in Gilbert, Arizona.
[00:00:52] I'm Erin.
[00:00:52] Joe: And I'm Joe.
[00:00:53] Erin: We are the hosts of the Show Me Homeschool podcast, where we guide parents through the wilderness of home education. Each weekly episode will focus on supporting and encouraging homeschool moms and dads through conversational interviews with like-minded Christian leaders in the homeschool community.
[00:01:10] Joe: In our experience, we've seen the lack of resources and support available for homeschool dads, so we want to address that by covering relevant topics concerning husbands and fathers as they lead their families. Through this lifestyle of home education,
[00:01:23] Erin: we understand the need for creating connections and building authentic relationships to sustain a healthy homeschool environment for yourself and your children.
[00:01:32] Joe: Our goal is not to show you how to replicate our homeschool, but to show you how you can create a home learning lifestyle that is sustainable for your family.
[00:01:40] Erin: Show me homeschool is here to come alongside you.
[00:01:48] So Nancy, hello. Welcome to the show. Thanks for having me, Erin. How fun. Yeah. I'm so excited to talk to you about AI and homeschool because it is new territory. So you wanna tell us a little bit about yourself and your homeschool journey before we get started though? Oh, sure. Yeah. So
[00:02:07] Nancy Manos: I, like you said, I homeschooled my girls from preschool through high school and we got started because there was a family at our church that they had two boys that were a few years older than our girls and we spent time with them and there was just something really special about their family.
[00:02:22] Like the boys would talk to us, you know, like regular people. How was your week, Mrs. Manos or you know, everybody asked James, you know, how was your business trip, Mr. Manos? And I thought, well, this is weird. I just hadn't met children like that. And you could tell that their family, like they genuinely enjoyed one another.
[00:02:38] And so we just got to learn about homeschooling from them and made the decision to homeschool and we're so glad that we started that adventure and stuck with it all the way to the end. We had some amazing experiences and throughout that time I was serving in homeschool leadership here in Arizona.
[00:02:55] Every state, as you know, has a Christian statewide homeschool organization. And James and I served with Arizona's organization, Arizona Families for Home Education for 16 years.
[00:03:07] Erin: Oh my goodness. So I love that about you. It's always great for me to connect with other homeschool leaders because homeschooling is one beast.
[00:03:15] And then you have leadership or helping others homeschool, and that's a whole other thing. And we could do a whole episode on that probably. But So when you were homeschooling your girls. How frequently did you use a lot of technology in your homeschool, or what, what type of uh, materials did you use?
[00:03:33] Nancy Manos: Well, I was, no, think my youngest graduated in 2011, so it's been a little while. We didn't have all the tools available to us that we have now, but my husband is in the tech industry, so we always had computers and technology in our home. And so when things came available, you know, our kids were using those tools and part of parenting is.
[00:03:54] Teaching them how to use them wisely and thoughtfully and in a way that glorifies God. And so that kinda leads into what we're gonna talk about today. 'cause there's this whole new world of tools through artificial intelligence generated AI that's available to us to
[00:04:11] Erin: How did you get into AI or researching how to implement that within homeschool?
[00:04:16] Do you use it in your own work? How do you use ai? And what was your catalyst for thinking through that?
[00:04:23] Nancy Manos: Well, I think even at my age, I feel like I love to learn new things. I'm always learning new things. I love tools that make my life easier and make my work more effective and efficient. 'cause we're all, I don't know, you're, you're probably like me where you do too much say yes to too many things.
[00:04:39] And so then it's like, well, how do I make the most of the time that I have available? And so I attend Social Media Marketing World. I know you follow Mike Stelzner and Yeah, women too. And so they really implemented a lot of, or added a lot of workshops and things to their conference, and then they started the AI Business Society.
[00:05:01] And so it's geared for marketers that really it's learning AI tools and so I signed up, was one of the first to join the society when they started it, and I've learned so much. So I just, I love learning and like I said, I love tools that make my day a little bit easier.
[00:05:17] Erin: So as busy homeschool moms that volunteer and work and do all these things, I know many of my.
[00:05:24] Homeschool peers right now, the moms are, you know, so many of us are finding part-time or full-time work or have, you know, pulled kids from public school to homeschool, but also have that job that they need to maintain. So when we're talking about busy mom, how can the busy mom implement AI into her schedule with her, her children?
[00:05:45] Or how can the children be using, um, AI to get their stuff done?
[00:05:50] Nancy Manos: Well, it's, that's a big question. It is. Yeah. Come back. It. I'll share some practical tips in a minute, but let's talk, let's back up a little bit and talk about using ai. So I started using it. Um, I do podcast marketing. I do, you know, all, all sorts of event planning, writing, and it doesn't replace me.
[00:06:10] It's still my word, my ideas, but it can help me make something I've written better. It can help me smooth out processes. It can automate some things. So think about, you know, just the ways that you run your life, what might make your life easier. So we'll talk some specifics, but stop for a moment and think the world that we live in today, AI is baked into everything.
[00:06:35] Like, I don't know when it was that I noticed this maybe two months ago. AI was giving me a summary of what each email that I received was. And I was like, well, when did that happen? Has it been happening for a while and I didn't notice it? You know, there's just AI in everything. You write an email, it's your email program is asking you, would you like to make this better?
[00:06:55] Mm-hmm. Click this button and I will rewrite this for you. Would you like it? More friendly. More professional, right. Crazy how AI is so pervasive and so it's really got me thinking about. As Christian homeschoolers in particular, our kids and my grandkids are growing up in a world that AI is part of everything, and I feel like we need to be able to use these tools, like I said, wisely, thoughtfully, ethically, in a way that glorifies God.
[00:07:25] And so like as parents, we can't really hide from this and go, you know what? We're not gonna get involved in ai. Mm-hmm. We have to prepare our kids for the future that awaits them.
[00:07:37] Erin: So when we're talking about ai, can you define what you're talking about?
[00:07:42] Nancy Manos: Well, it's so vast. So I'm talking about tools like chat, GPT.
[00:07:47] Claude is one of my, is my favorite tool for, well, lots of things. Brainstorming, writing, polishing, written materials, things like that. What I, an event that I just hosted that you attended? Mm-hmm. I had a long email chain with our con convention, uh, services manager and I could not. There was so many back and forth, back and forth.
[00:08:09] I fed the whole thing into Claude, stripped out the contact information 'cause that wasn't necessary. And we like to protect people's privacy. But I fed the whole thing into Claude and I said, could you please give me the key takeaways, the deadlines? And it gave me a bulleted summary. Wow. Like a basic thing like that.
[00:08:25] It saved my day. I know a lot of Christian, uh, moms and dads are afraid to enter this world 'cause it feels scary. We've heard all of the, um. Potential threats and issues and concerns. There's so many, and we need to be aware of those things. So doing our own research, I think is really important. But then not being afraid to dip our toe in this bucket of tools.
[00:08:50] So their productivity tools, there are research tools. Others, you know, I think you had mentioned your husband likes grok. Mm-hmm. That's another one. So there's those kind of tools that are chatbots, and then there's. There's so many other tools. There's tools that can make images, ideogram, mid journey.
[00:09:08] There's tools that can make videos and music and I mean, there's a tool for any task that you might need to accomplish.
[00:09:16] Erin: Yeah, I've not dipped my toes too far into it, but I have used chat, GPT, like you said, I have this idea and I really need to hone in on what the key points are. So I would, you know, give prompts and say, Hey, this is what I'm looking for.
[00:09:33] It has actually been helpful for me, um, just coming up with points that I didn't even think about or had forgotten about, where, uh, it was just helpful then to say in my own words, taking those points and, and putting them into the way that I would say them. So I've used it in those ways as well. So when we're talking about productivity, because you know, busy homeschool mom, what ways could we implement AI in our productivity with our homeschool?
[00:10:01] Nancy Manos: Well, here's one that was not related to my homeschool, but any homeschool mom today I think could relate to and enjoy. Um, my daughter visited in July and she brought me some sourdough starter. She makes a ton of sourdough bread and she taught me in the three days she was here how to make sourdough.
[00:10:16] Well then I have to keep this thing alive, and I texted her on. I think it was like the 4th of July. She's at a party with the kids, you know, doing life. And I'm texting her, what do I do next? And she's like, mom. Chat, GPT could be your sourdough goat. So you could take a picture of your starter of your finished bread and it will give you all this feedback and it will tell you next steps and how long you need.
[00:10:40] And so like there's a really practical right meetings. AI is a sourdough coat. Mm-hmm.
[00:10:46] Erin: Yeah. Because what AI is doing is really pulling from all these sources online. Putting all that content into a digestible piece of information that you can use, how careful do we need to be with the information that is being pulled through ai uh, tools like chat, GPT?
[00:11:04] Nancy Manos: Well, and this is where I think homeschool moms are gonna shine because we want our kids to have great research skills, great critical thinking skills, a good understanding of history and science and the Bible. So by teaching our kids. From real books through a real conversation, giving them a good foundation.
[00:11:25] It's through that lens of truth and real history that then we can use these tools because we're gonna have to discern what's real, what's made up, what's hallucinated is the word that they use, like with chat GPT in particular. But any of them can make up information 'cause they, it wants, it's just basically.
[00:11:48] A math equation, and it's giving you an answer based on what you've asked. And so asking good questions, but asking a follow up question is really important. Show me your sources. Where did you find this information? Because sometimes it will tell you very confident sounding. The answer to your question is this, 80% of people do X, Y, z, well.
[00:12:09] GPT or Claude or Grok or whatever, show me your sources, but where, where did the sources that this information came from? And I just saw a video about this where this lady did this very thing and she said it came back and said, there is no source for this information. I rounded up, I estimated this answer for, oh wow, Uhhuh.
[00:12:28] But the way it presents it, it sounds like a fact.
[00:12:31] Erin: Yeah, that's a really good point because I think just like any new tool, I'm sure when computers came out, there were parents that were like, absolutely not. We're not doing that in our homeschool. And then, you know, cell phone came out and I mean, there's more tech between those two things.
[00:12:45] But in everything that we're using with technology, whether it's ai. A cell phone, Netflix, anything that we're doing, we have to do what you said, teach our children discernment. What is biblical truth? How do we use these things ethically? How do we not, you know, cheat on our tests or, or those things? So I think, like you said, that foundation, do you wanna talk a little bit more about that foundation that we have to set as Christian parents in biblical truth before setting them loose in technology?
[00:13:15] Nancy Manos: Right. Well, I think there's also two steps to this where we're learning to use these tools. Then we're teaching our children to use these tools. So for me, my heart is to teach moms, like, what can you do with ai? And then how do you teach your kids? So it really is like we need to be reading real books with our kids.
[00:13:33] They need a solid foundation of history and just a basic set of knowledge to test the results that you get from AI against. If you don't have that solid foundation of information, you're gonna believe whatever it says. The reality is if you've used chat, GPT or any of these tools, they're very affirming.
[00:13:54] They're very, oh, what's the word I'm looking for? Like it's very flattering, uhhuh. It will always make you sound like the smartest person in the room. What a brilliant question, Erin. I think that's, we're asking, here's what you need to know. And it will, it will just make you sound, feel really good about yourself.
[00:14:10] Right? Which, if you're young and you don't have emotional maturity and just age and experience mm-hmm. You will believe whatever it tells you because it sounds so great and it sounds like it's your best friend. You can tell it to challenge you. You can train it in its voice so that it doesn't always affirm everything you say as brilliant, but it's just very interesting.
[00:14:33] So. A couple things that I've learned recently that are so fascinating. There's some high schools and colleges that are going one of two directions. They're either going all pen and paper. You write your essay in class with pen and paper, so I can see you did the work, or they're going all in on ai.
[00:14:51] Teaching, um, young people how to use it hopefully wisely. Mm-hmm. Um, and so it's an interesting thing, but we're hearing even in homeschool co-ops, homeschool teenagers who know and love the Lord are using AI to write their, you know, essay or whatever for class. And it's interesting 'cause a friend of mine just gave an assignment recently and she said, I knew which kids used AI because AI in every instance misunderstood what I was asking for in this assignment.
[00:15:19] We're seeing it even in our community. Yeah. Kids who wanna do a good job and you know, the parents that really want their kids to master the concepts of the things that they're learning. And, you know, we're going to all this work to teach our children, but our sin, nature and our flesh still wants the easiest path.
[00:15:38] Right?
[00:15:38] Erin: Mm-hmm. So that's funny that your friends, they all, they all got it wrong because she, and that's interesting that she was able to tell that. Last year I was at college myself doing, uh, biblical counseling classes. And that was huge. And all the communications from the professors to the students was no.
[00:15:58] Using AI on your papers. If we find that that's plagiarism and that's something that will be punished and that you will have, uh, you know, maybe be knocked from your class or you're failing that class or whatever. So I mean, as a mom, as a parent, as a, an adult woman, having that amount of like. Don't do it.
[00:16:16] Don't do it. Don't do it. And I mean like I wasn't planning on doing that anyway, but it is kind of like I could see the temptation for a student who maybe didn't study, who doesn't know the material to put it into something that does have all these sources to pull from and get the paper written that they need to turn in the grade and just change a couple words.
[00:16:33] Like I could see that temptation. But like you said, that is where. We need to be solid in our faith and asking those questions of our parents and saying, Hey, I don't understand the assignment, or Could I have more time? Or, you know, whatever it is. I think those communication doors need to be wide open. So do you feel like AI is kind of gonna be like typing class was back in the day, you know, like everybody's doing it because this is the way that things are going.
[00:16:57] Nancy Manos: Yeah, and there was a study done by, I believe it was Proctor and Gamble that showed. That the kind of the difference between employees who use AI in their work and those who don't like a whole team of, I can't remember the exact results, but basically the one employee that used AI far exceeded a whole team of people that didn't, and so like we have to think of the future.
[00:17:22] Our children and grandchildren are going to be working and living in a world. Where knowing how to use AI tools is gonna help them in their jobs. It's gonna give them an advantage. And so how do we use those things today in a way that helps us without replacing us? Like we don't want to remove the thinking process.
[00:17:43] There's something beautiful about digging in, doing the research and doing the hard work. You feel gratified in the end result because you actually had to sweat a little bit, right? Mm-hmm. So we don't wanna remove the struggle, but in what ways can AI help us to be more efficient without replacing the human element, without replacing the parts that help us have a stronger walk with the Lord?
[00:18:08] And you know, there's all these things now about using AI as like a therapist, which is terrifying to me, right? Because it can have all the wisdom in the world, but it's not the Holy Spirit, right?
[00:18:20] Erin: Mm-hmm.
[00:18:21] Nancy Manos: And so I just think this is. The path ahead of us is unknown, which makes it a little scary.
[00:18:27] Erin: Mm-hmm.
[00:18:28] Nancy Manos: But it's not going away.
[00:18:30] And so how do we, this is just the question. I don't know that I have the answer yet, but how do we help ourselves and our children to grow up in this world that is now gonna have AI as part of every single thing? Mm-hmm. Won't be able to avoid it. Probably even as a plumber or in construction or in any of the trades.
[00:18:51] It'll be somewhere in there too. I, I just, it's exciting though. I think there's an opportunity if we are wise about it. Mm-hmm. And that's where I wanna explore. Like I wanna learn more about ways that we can use it to help us in our home schools and to help our children in their futures.
[00:19:07] Erin: I love that. I think that's a very measured response because like you said, there's so much unknown with ai, the direction it's gonna go, how much it's going to be implemented in the world.
[00:19:16] It, it already is taking over lots of spaces, like you said, with email or social media prompt of, Hey, do you want to make this better when we're talking about homeschool, uh, as far as productivity, can you walk us through how you would use maybe chat GPT to create a lesson plan for you?
[00:19:35] Nancy Manos: Oh, sure. One thing I really love when you think about using AI tools is that it can free up some space so you have time to do something that you enjoy more, right?
[00:19:46] So instead of back in the day, we would go to the library, which I still think we should all be doing. Check out a bunch of books, read and do a bunch of research, and come up with some ideas for our kids to enhance their learning. Well, now you can just ask chat, GPT. Hey, we're learning about ancient Egypt.
[00:20:04] Pick the topic. Um, you know, the old west, the gold rush, uh, you know, whatever you, you pick the, the solar system, pick a topic, whatever you wanna learn about. And you can brainstorm ideas. So maybe you have your text that the kids will be reading from and answering questions, but you want them to have a more hands-on rich learning experience with the information.
[00:20:26] So you might be asking, you know. Give me some, you know, creative ways to study vocabulary. Words pertaining to this thing we're studying, or give me some ideas from, for some hands-on learning, some science experiments, some craft projects, maybe how could we. Incorporate math in learning about this such and such thing that we're learning.
[00:20:48] Mm-hmm. Or really the sky's the limit. Right? So thinking about ways, I don't want my kids to just go read their work text and write the answers. 'cause they're gonna forget it. It doesn't come alive as much. We really loved a rich hands-on kind of, um, experience. And so these AI tools can give you some amazing ideas.
[00:21:07] Some of them you'll be like, there's no way we're doing that. Yeah. Others will be like, I never thought of that. Or I could have thought of that, but it didn't occur to me. Right.
[00:21:16] Erin: Yeah. I mean you could even, like my, my mind is spinning as you're talking, thinking. You could even give it like a budget of, I only have this amount of money for my homeschool.
[00:21:25] What can we do in the course of the semester? Or you know, find different places within a hundred mile radius of your city or something of hands-on. Learning experiences, field trips. I mean, there's just, that's just like, oh, my gears are going now because I can put all these prompts. Because like you said, it really is a timeing back in the day.
[00:21:45] You go to the library, you get all the books checked out, and, and really even then you're, you're so limited because what's in your library system that's available, unless they do like inter-library loans or something. Then you only have what's at your branch if you're close to one or you have to wait and mail it in.
[00:22:02] Or once the computers came, you know, then you have search engines at your disposal. But even then you have to weed through and research. So I think it's just an extension of that. Maybe looking at AI as a, a re a research extension, because you do still need to fact check, you still need to use ethics and your moral compass to decide what's, what's good and not.
[00:22:23] What about the idea of. For productivity using chat, GPT or GR or whatever to do meal plan for your family or keep you on budget?
[00:22:33] Nancy Manos: Oh, yeah. I, I've seen lots of reels and things of families like this is how they use ai. We're a family of eight. We want, uh, kind, high protein, low carb. We're going to plan two meals a day.
[00:22:47] And then breakfast is kind of on your own. Here's our budget for the week. Here's our favorite foods. Here's foods we never eat. Plan, you know, a monthly meal rotation and it's amazing, like the time it can save you when you just give it all the parameters. 'cause what ends up happening, if you're like me, is we ended up having the same seven or eight meals just yeah, recycled.
[00:23:09] And it gets a little boring sometimes. Or we would eat out too much. That could happen too. Uhhuh been there. It's amazing. Just what you can do, like organizing information, planning events and parties. Give me some creative ideas around this theme, or your schedule is busy. We, I only had two kids and I felt like we were always on the run.
[00:23:30] How great would it be to feed all of that information into chat GPT or something and ask it to find ways for me to, you know, where in my schedule can I read this book that I want to finish, or I wanna make sure that I have four hours this week too. Quilt or to write letters or to read the Bible, or you know, how can I take all these pieces and make it flow more smoothly for my family, right?
[00:23:57] Erin: Mm-hmm. Oh, that's so good. And yeah, I'm thinking of prompts like, I have no time to do chores or clean my house, so can I get a cleaning schedule based on dah, dah? That could be also very. Well put, or you know, and I think that the thing I keep thinking as well is these search engines are free. And when we talk about homeschool, and I know you and I are both very passionate about keeping home education privately funded, and for a lot of us that means one income family.
[00:24:27] Some of us now are having two income, but the second income is to pay the bills, not to do all the extras, right? So I'm thinking, oh wow, what could we do with this free tool? It's at our disposal because there are paid versions of some of these options, but it really doesn't have to cost a lot and how, or come up with a planner for me or whatever it is.
[00:24:46] You know, just a meal planner, a whatever, chore planner or something. I think leaning into things that are cost effective for our families and really help the bottom line. Yeah. Could be another way to use these things. Do you have any other thoughts as we're talking of topics or points you wanted to hit on for AI and homeschool?
[00:25:07] Nancy Manos: I think if it, if you could think about what are the biggest pain points in your life, what are you struggling the most with? What stresses you out the most? Is there a way for AI to help you? For example, like I think about the hotspots in your house. Does everybody dump their stuff on the kitchen island?
[00:25:24] Does everybody, are there shoes all by the front door, all a mess? Like what are the, the things in your house that irritate you? Sometimes it's about putting a system in place so you can even ask for ideas. Like, okay, this is an ongoing issue for me and my family of five. How do we put a system in place that will help us all have some peace in this area?
[00:25:43] And it's amazing what comes up. Or, you know, maybe you wanna go do something fun this weekend, your budget is limited. Ask Chachi, pt. What's going on in, you know, like for, I live in Phoenix, the Phoenix area.
[00:25:54] Erin: Mm-hmm.
[00:25:55] Nancy Manos: Phoenix area this weekend. That's good for a family. Um, kids ranging in age from X to Y. We'd like to keep it under a hundred dollars for the whole family.
[00:26:06] Like what could we do this weekend in Phoenix? And it will give you a list of things that's happening. That's awesome. Maybe, maybe free things. What free things are happening in my community this month that could enhance our homeschool? Then just make a list and incorporate them in your week. Hey, there's a free thing at the museum.
[00:26:21] This. You know, the first Thursday of the month, that would be a fun thing to add in that wouldn't cost you anything.
[00:26:27] Erin: Oh, that's so good. Yes. I love all your ideas here. This is wonderful. Like, you know, I think it's encouraging. 'cause a lot of times, like you said, I, I am very much so, like, we don't make fear-based decisions because when you're, you're hit with reality, the fear isn't the thing that's gonna sustain you.
[00:26:44] Whether that's choosing to homeschool. What technology you're using in your homeschool. I think that rea reasonable caution is good and wise and, and discernment is good and wise, but I think also finding ways like we're talking about to use these tools, um, because like you said, you are training these tools essentially how to work properly or get the results that are needed because there are reporting, you know, like you can say, did this.
[00:27:09] Meet your expectations or you know, there's feedback that you can give to see if those tools are helping. So before we close up. Do you have any last encouragement for parents that are maybe in the thick of life right now, wondering how much technology they should allow in their home, or what age they should allow AI use, or any kind of guidelines that you think might be helpful for a parent who's like heard of ai?
[00:27:36] I've heard of chat GPT, but I just don't know about it.
[00:27:40] Nancy Manos: Well, I think this is what we're gonna be discovering together as we learn these things. The more real life activities you can do with your kids. Screen free, real books, real activities, cooking, taking care of the chickens, whatever, whatever the, you know, real life experiences that we can give our kids, I think the better equipped they will be to use AI tools, which sounds very counter, um, intuitive that you would avoid the tech thing to be good at the tech thing.
[00:28:12] I think when we have a really good grounding in real world stuff, that then when we use an AI tool, we're gonna know, oh, that's a good answer. Or no, that's complete baloney.
[00:28:23] Erin: Mm-hmm.
[00:28:24] Nancy Manos: We need to have enough courage to see the future that this is gonna be part of our future. So what steps can I take today myself to try something, to go find a video that teaches me a little bit of something on how to use an AI tool?
[00:28:41] And then play with it, and then learn what it can do. Learn what you like and what you don't like. Learn some things yourself so that you can help guide your kids through using it.
[00:28:52] Erin: Thank you for that. That's really good. I think also, like you said, the library is a great resource. There are so many books on tech.
[00:28:59] You know, it's almost as soon as they're published, they're outdated, but it's a good starting point for like, you know, AI for Dummies or something like that. You know, you can just get that information or just talking with other homeschool moms like, we've had some great conversations about AI and that's why I wanted you to talk today is just because I think when we're, we're learning something as homeschool moms and we can pass that knowledge on to other moms, especially moms in business, because like you said, AI is everywhere in business.
[00:29:27] If you're on Instagram and you have a blog or any kind of digital. Thing that you're doing as a part of your business. AI is there whether you like it or not, whether you use it or not. And I, I have noticed an uptick when you can kind of tell, not because it's necessarily like inauthentic if someone's using ai, but you can tell that it seems more like there is more content that they're creating or just the ability to create because like content calendars and things like that for, um, homeschool moms.
[00:29:57] I mean, even as a homeschool mom working, we could even talk a little bit about that. Just how you can use that in your business. Like I have this many hours in the week. I need to get dinner on the table. What's the best time to do like big batch meal planning for my family this week? Or when's the best time for me to go grocery shopping?
[00:30:14] I mean you, the sky is the limit, like you said
[00:30:17] Nancy Manos: it. It really is.
[00:30:19] Erin: Yeah. Well, thank you so much, Nancy, for coming and talking about AI and how to implement this in the homeschool. And your general home life. And I, I hope it's encouraging to some moms that maybe were kind of like, eh, I don't know. And you know what?
[00:30:33] If you still don't wanna use it, that's totally fine too. It's just there's options. And I think just talking through what those options could look like and how you can benefit from them is the good thing. Well, thanks for coming on, Nancy.
[00:30:46] Nancy Manos: Thanks for having me. I am praying for your listeners, just as we all explore this.
[00:30:50] It feels like uncharted territory ahead of us, so how do we make the most of it?
[00:30:55] Erin: Yeah. So Nancy, I didn't mention this earlier, but you, beyond doing the behind the scenes work at conferences and things, you also are a speaker and you have your own blog and website. So do you wanna share that information so that other people can find you and see what you're doing?
[00:31:11] Nancy Manos: Sure. Well, I'm in the process of redesigning my website, um, so it will have more information soon, but it's nancy manos.com. I've got a page with some free resources for, uh, homeschool families that, um, hopefully are encouraging, but. It's homeschool articles and things like that. Nancy manos.com.
[00:31:28] Erin: Thank you so much.
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