How can cloud technologies be useful for children in 2026? Let's figure it out.

📚 Learning: AI tutors and cloud platforms

Khan Academy uses the AI assistant Khanmigo, which doesn't give a ready answer but guides the child with questions using the Socratic method. In 2026, Google integrated Gemini AI into Reading/Writing Coach tools for students in grades 5–12 to help with reading and writing.

I highly recommend using the Socratic method when teaching children and adults without AI; it's one of the best methods that allows you to independently reach a solution through an iterative process.


Duolingo Max and Duolingo ABC/Kids use AI for practicing conversational language and literacy in children aged 3–7.

Minecraft Education is a cloud-based gaming platform used by schools worldwide. In 2026, the Cloud Community scenario was released, where children explore a modern, AI-ready data center in a game format and learn to balance energy efficiency, sustainability, and security.

Despite many parents' skepticism, Minecraft, Roblox, and similar games can provide significant educational benefits. It all depends on the application. A child can observe many real-world things through the lens of the game, which is very suitable for "observer" children. Meanwhile, "experimenter" children actively build and code.


Yandex, VK Tech, and Prosveshcheniye created a school textbook on cloud technologies for grades 10–11; it is included in the federal list of the Ministry of Education. It has 16 modules: history of clouds, AI, data protection, practical tasks (websites, skills for "Alice").

Not all textbooks are equally useful, but this one is quite good.


🎮 Games and entertainment: cloud gaming and children's services

Cloud gaming (e.g., VK Play Cloud or MTS Fog)

What's useful about it? It can save many parents the budget for buying an expensive PC.


Roblox and Minecraft are used as a base for IT courses for children—from game development to basic programming. The cloud ensures progress synchronization and access from any device.

🛡 Safety and parental control

Apple introduced an updated set of child safety features: child accounts with age filters, Ask to Browse (child requests access to a new site), Ask to Buy, flexible screen time limits by category, Communication Safety with on-device AI content analysis.

Just don't overdo it with control; forbidden fruit is sweet, and children are getting smarter and learning to bypass all restrictions. But given the increasing cases of children's illnesses related to buying trinkets on marketplaces, features like Ask to Buy look like a must-have.


Microsoft Family Safety. A cloud service that allows parents to manage screen time, filter websites, block apps, and control purchases on Windows, Xbox, Android, and iOS.

Kaspersky Safe Kids provides reports on the child's online activity, filters content, and modern solutions achieve filtering efficiency up to ~99.9%.

🎨 Creativity and projects

Cloud services like Canva, Scratch Jr, Google Classroom, and classic Google Drive / Yandex.Disk / OneDrive help children store and collaboratively create projects—from presentations to games and animations.

It is very important to pay attention to the team-building component in the communication of modern children. Experience shows that modern games and the street foster toxicity, alexithymia, and narcissism. Parents fuel this with endless love for their children (hello, little princes and princesses). The result is that when these young people come to work, they don't understand what it means to have a unified vector and achieve a team result. We need to change the focus of attention. Teach that family can also be outside the home. Board games like The Cunning Fox also serve as good training.


Go ahead and use technology to the fullest, and may the force be with you!