Ada’s Kids Learning for the age of AI

ABOUT ADA’S KIDS

Built to strengthen human learning in the age of AI.

Ada’s Kids helps learners, families, and educators navigate a world where intelligence is everywhere — by strengthening curiosity, attention, reasoning, creativity, reflection, and judgment.

What Ada’s Kids is

A learning platform for the AI age.

Ada’s Kids is the educational complement to Ridian Technologies. Where Ridian focuses on intelligent systems, workflows, and execution, Ada’s Kids focuses on human learning: cognition, confidence, reflection, and growth.

Ada’s Kids is not about replacing thinking with AI. It is about helping learners think better with intelligent tools.

Founder / builder

The person building the work

Ryan Buchanan

Ryan Buchanan

Educator, instructional technologist, and AI systems builder.

Ryan Buchanan is an educator, instructional technologist, AI systems builder, and founder of Ridian Technologies. His work brings together education, cognitive development, applied AI, instructional design, and practical systems thinking.

Ada’s Kids grew from the belief that learning should become more human, not less, in the age of AI. As machines become better at remembering and answering, people need stronger habits of attention, reasoning, judgment, creativity, and reflection.

Focus

Credibility and focus

Education and instructional technology

Experience designing learning experiences, tutoring flows, and AI-supported education systems.

AI-era learning design

Focused on how learners grow when AI can answer questions instantly.

Cognitive training

Building Cognitive Gym as a way to strengthen attention, memory, reasoning, creativity, and judgment.

Human-centered AI

Designing tools that support human growth instead of replacing human thought.

Principles

Operating principles

Learning before automation

AI should support deeper learning, not shortcut it.

Think first

Learners should attempt, explain, reflect, and reason before outsourcing thought.

Human judgment matters

The goal is not just correct answers, but stronger judgment and better questions.

Warm technology

Educational AI should feel calm, supportive, clear, and humane.

AI-era learning

Moving higher up the learning ladder

In the age of AI, remembering and basic understanding are increasingly supported by machines. Ada’s Kids helps learners move upward toward applying, analyzing, evaluating, and creating.

  1. 01 Remember
  2. 02 Understand
  3. 03 Apply
  4. 04 Analyze
  5. 05 Evaluate
  6. 06 Create

Ecosystem

Part of the Ridian Technologies ecosystem

Ada’s Kids is the human learning side of the Ridian Technologies vision. Ridian builds systems that help people turn ideas into coordinated action. Ada’s Kids helps people strengthen the cognitive habits needed to live, learn, and create alongside intelligent systems.

Ridian Technologies →

Start here

Ready to explore learning for the age of AI?

Start Learning Talk to Ada Enter Cognitive Gym