What's the one AI thing you keep meaning to try but haven't and what's actually stopping you?

We all have one. The tool bookmarked, the idea half-formed, the "next week" that never comes. Naming the blocker out loud is usually the thing that finally moves it.

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The one AI thing I keep meaning to try is using Claude to build and publish an educational app for staff or pupils. I've got loads of ideas for things that could genuinely make a difference, whether that's a revision tool, a CPD app or something to support pupils, and I know AI could help me create it much more quickly than I could on my own. What's stopping me isn't the technology, it's...

- Javier De-Las-Heras, 13 June 2026

I have so many ideas for data collection apps for schools but I am concerned about FERPA and HIPPA so I do not explore it. I know there are ways to do it but don’t want the liability

- Your Therapy Source, 13 June 2026

I want to make some simulations but I never know where to start! I am not in the classroom but support our teachers so I need to purposely start to ask them what would be a possible simulation that they would use.

- Chris Cocek, 13 June 2026

Hey Lola, I run a cohort with Dr. Sabba Quidwai for school leaders that helps school leaders design their own AI projects, using design thinking and modern innovation frameworks: projectmomentum.ai

- Dan Fitzpatrick, 13 June 2026

Hey Javier, I run a cohort with Dr. Sabba Quidwai for school leaders that does exactly this: projectmomentum.ai

- Dan Fitzpatrick, 13 June 2026

One AI-related idea I have been meaning to explore is a **small pilot concept** rather than a finished solution.I have been wondering whether some student soft skills could be observed not through a questionnaire or a declarative test, but through **behaviour in a guided interactive situation**. One possible route might be a **simple 3D game, perhaps an FPS-style or first-person puzzle...

- Roman Baranovič, 13 June 2026

For me, it is creating my own chatbot.It is one of those AI things I keep meaning to try properly, but it has not quite become a reality yet. The first reason is time: I have been using this period to learn as much as possible about AI in education, policy, assessment, safeguarding and classroom implementation, so actually building a chatbot has remained on the “soon, honestly” list.The second...