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Free financial literacy platform for kids – 90 lessons, no paywall

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Re: Free financial literacy platform for kids – 90 lessons, no paywall

#11

The content is just poorly written and incomprehensible. This article doesn't even get into the topic. https://learnfinly.com/learn/types-of-accounts

Which part lost you? The lesson is written for 8-12 year olds so I tried to keep it simple, but if it's confusing I want to fix it

Have you written everything? Or is all generated by AI? Sorry for asking, but it sounds very weirdly structured for something aimed to 8-12 year olds.

Re: Free financial literacy platform for kids – 90 lessons, no paywall

#12

The content is just poorly written and incomprehensible. This article doesn't even get into the topic. https://learnfinly.com/learn/types-of-accounts

Which part lost you? The lesson is written for 8-12 year olds so I tried to keep it simple, but if it's confusing I want to fix it

Near the top, the page claims it’s about learning the difference between checking, saving and money market accounts.

In the entire linked article, where is the explanation for what a savings account is? Most of the early paragraphs are just waffling about how “Types of Accounts” are important. I’m pretty sure I read the phrase “money is emotional” before even getting to any description of any type of account. The word “savings” almost never appears and none of the instances seemed to define a savings account.

Honestly, is this content written by AI? In my opinion it’s acceptable to use AI to replace the boilerplate HTML, JavaScript and CSS of your site. But using AI for the actual writing risks turning your “educational tool” into a tool for misinformation.

EDIT: according to Pangram, 100% of the first two paragraphs are AI generated. Which is not a surprise at all, I don’t see how a human tasked with describing types of bank accounts would struggle this hard.

Re: Free financial literacy platform for kids – 90 lessons, no paywall

#13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Which part lost you? The lesson is written for 8-12 year olds so I tried to keep it simple, but if it's confusing I want to fix it

Have you written everything? Or is all generated by AI? Sorry for asking, but it sounds very weirdly structured for something aimed to 8-12 year olds.

A lot of these are based on notes I took in my personal finance class and videos I watched and took notes from. I used AI to help adapt them for the two age tiers and that's where I think it fell apart. The refinement process made them way more wordy and abstract than I wanted. That's on me for not catching it. I'm actively writing the worst ones today to actually just explain what things are first before anything else.

Re: Free financial literacy platform for kids – 90 lessons, no paywall

#14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Which part lost you? The lesson is written for 8-12 year olds so I tried to keep it simple, but if it's confusing I want to fix it

Near the top, the page claims it’s about learning the difference between checking, saving and money market accounts. In the entire linked article, where is the explanation for what a savings account is? Most of the early paragraphs are just waffling about how “Types of Accounts” are important. I’m pretty sure I read the phrase “money is emotional” before even getting to any description of any type of account. The wor…

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Re: Free financial literacy platform for kids – 90 lessons, no paywall

#15
Update: rewrote all 50 foundation and real-world lessons based on the feedback here. Definitions first, real numbers, concrete examples. The types-of-accounts lesson is already updated. Thanks to everyone who pushed back on this, it made the product better

Re: Free financial literacy platform for kids – 90 lessons, no paywall

#16
Love the no-paywall aspect to this. We need to normalize financial talk and education on this topic. According to a recent Acorns report, "44% of Americans (and 53% of young adults) believe that simply ignoring financial decisions reduces their stress." That is a scary finding.
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