Table 1 should certainly be expanded to include more thinking strategies that can be taught with AI principles and methods. Although much positive feedback has been obtained from children and parents attending Creative Kids Workshops, large-scale studies and formal evaluations must be implemented to access effectiveness.
The AI methods described are taught in isolation. Given a problem, there is no ``super'' AI system that can decide what kind of problem it is, how to formulate it, and which AI methods to apply.
Acquiring this integrating strategy would be crucial for choosing and applying various thinking strategies in real-world new situations. But little is known as to how to do that in AI, or how to teach it to our children.
Creativity also represents a crucial aspect of intellectual intelligence. Much work is needed to bring methodologies in AI to improving creativity in children.
Several parents sat in on the whole Creative Kids Workshop themselves and were very positive about their own learning experiences. Indeed, reasoning, critical thinking, creativity, and optimal decision making under uncertainty are situations that business people often have to deal with, just as we have to in our daily life. Application of AI methods to improve adult thinking abilities is also a future area to look into.
Last, as we discussed earlier, designing AI tutoring systems for teaching high-level thinking skills is also a major challenge in the future research.