LanternShiksha AI
Lantern AI for families

Teaches from their own book.

Lantern answers your child's questions from the pages of their own coursebook — at their level, the way their school teaches it, and never by handing over the homework answer.

Bring it to your school
Answers only from their coursebook Won't do their homework for them

How a child actually uses it

Ask it. Read it. Practise it. See what stuck.

Three doors into the same book, and the page a grown-up reads once it's dark. Here's one Tuesday evening, written straight into the exercise book — the margin keeps the score.

01 — Ask

A patient tutor, always at the right level.

They type, talk, or snap a photo of the page. The answer comes from their own book, at their own grade, with the diagram alongside. Point it at a homework question and it switches to hints instead of answers.

Hints, never the homework answer
02 — Read

Their actual textbook, on a shelf.

The coursebooks their school teaches that grade from, plus illustrated stories. They can browse, search inside, pick up where they left off — and ask about whatever is in front of them.

Their own coursebook, not the open web
03 — Practise

Quick quizzes that find what's stuck.

Topic, difficulty, length — quizzes built from their own course. They also say how sure they were of each answer, so what gets tracked is genuine understanding rather than a lucky guess.

Confidence tracked, not just score
04 — Progress

The whole fortnight, in one honest paragraph.

After she's gone to bed, the grown-up view opens with a written summary — what she dug into, what she's confident with, what's worth another ten minutes. Tap the half of that sentence that isn't good news and the mix-ups come out in her own words, ranked by how often they came back.

Mastery, never minutes on screen

The curriculum, made visible

Every idea, and what it unlocks.

Meet Oli — a wise owl who lays the whole grade out in three lanes: learn first, you are here, opens up next. Tap any idea to see what it builds on, and jump straight in.

0ideas across the grade, searchable
0links drawn between them
0lanes — before, here, next
🦉 Oli — tap any dot
every book's best page — the map in the back

Inside the app

Nine doors. One book.

The whole index — every screen a child can open. A tick means the page already played that door above; it keeps only what the story left out, and points back up.

Study

Explore & keep

Walked above, in the evening

What the evening kept back: homework.

Point it at question 3 and the answer stays locked — Go deeper deals hints one layer at a time, and the last one sends her off the screen to try it with her hands.

↑ Revisit the evening · step 01 — Ask

Walked above, in the evening

New on this shelf: story lessons.

The same chapters, rewritten as tales — a picture, a line of story, one question, marked on the spot.

↑ Revisit the evening · step 02 — Read

Library Science · Stage 4Page 52 of 148

6 · Circuits and switches

Electricity needs a path to travel along. The cell, the wire and the bulb together make that path, and we call it a circuit.

For the bulb to light, the path must go all the way round — out of one end of the cell and back into the other. If there is a gap anywhere along it, the current cannot travel and the bulb stays dark.

A circuit with the switch open

A switch is simply a gap you can open and close whenever you like.

Ask about this Ask Lantern

‹52 / 148 · Chapter 6›

Walked above, in the evening

The evening took one door in; there are three.

You watched the quick check. The other two: a drill on the slip that keeps coming back, and the next idea straight off the map — hands-on, or a worksheet.

↑ Revisit the evening · step 03 — Practise

From school4B · Ms Raman

0still to do 0being marked 0marked 0average over 4
Search worksheets… All7To do2Marked4
WorksheetSetStatusScore Circuits and switchesScience · 6 questions · 10 marks yesterday Due Friday — Fractions on a number lineMaths · 8 questions · 12 marks Mon Being marked — Adjectives in a paragraphEnglish · 5 questions · 10 marks last week Marked · secure 9 of 10 · 90%

Your parent connected this class. Nothing you type in Lantern goes to your school.

LanternScience · Stage 4

A switch doesn't make electricity. It just opens or closes the loop — closed, the current can go all the way round; open, it can't.

✦ GENERATED
An open switch breaks the loop
+ Save Go deeper

My Notebooks4 notebooks · 37 things kept

Circuits 11 kept Words I like9 kept Tricky maths12 kept Bones & muscles5 kept

Recently kept

An open switch breaks the looppicture · Circuits · just now “Why does the bulb go out?”answer · Circuits · yesterday Page 52 — Circuits and switchespage · Science · Monday
Save to a notebook

Suggested

Circuits11 kept

All notebooks

Tricky maths12 kept Bones & muscles5 kept + Start a new notebook
Saved to Circuits

Unfolded above, in the stars

You’ve already crossed this one.

The fold-out a few pages up is this door — Oli, three lanes, 649 ideas. What it kept quiet: a locked idea says why, and what to learn first.

↑ Unfold the map again
🔥 4 LV 7+20 ⭐ why do magnets stick?what is a food chain?

Walked above, in the evening

The evening read the grown-up half.

The same fortnight has a second reading — My journey, hers: a trail of lamps, each lit by something she can now do.

↑ Revisit the evening · step 04 — Progress

The rest of this door — the pictures drawn for her question, the read-aloud, the patient answer — is the evening's step 01, played in full.

One layer deeper, not a lectureA hands-on activity to try

she asked — it didn't tell

The shelf itself — their real coursebooks, searchable, reopening on page 52 — is the evening's step 02.

For you · Books · StoriesNine steps, graded as they go

the same chapter, as a tale

Every word of the scan has an invisible box over it, so dragging a finger really does mark the sentence underneath. Let go and one button appears — Ask about this — and the answer opens beside the page, quoting what they marked and scoped to that page number.

Ask about thisQuoted, with the page numberSave to a notebookOpen in full chat

she chose the line

The loop itself — how sure were you, every miss walked back through — is the evening's step 03.

Quick check · Weak spot · From the mapDrills a named misconception

same slip, third time

If a parent connects the class, set work lands here — done in the app, marked by the teacher, back with a score against the objective.

Only with a parent's consentMarked by the teacherNothing typed here goes to school

due friday

Anything worth keeping — an answer, a picture, a page — goes into a notebook they named themselves.

Save from any answerSuggested by subjectTheirs to organise

keep this one

The map lives up in the stars band, spread out in full — this door is just where she keeps it.

A locked idea says whyStraight into the lesson

so that's why!

A lantern they talk to out loud — press, speak, hear it back. The quests are capped, so nothing here can be farmed.

Press and hold to speakA fixed number of stars a dayReading is what earns a streak

hold it down to talk

The brief, the mastery bars, the ten minutes for tonight — all of it is the evening's step 04.

For a grown-up · My journeyEvery lamp, something she can do

her half of the page

Why schools and parents trust it

Safe because of how it's built — not because of a warning label.

Three separate stores of knowledge do three separate jobs, so the guardrails hold even when a child is determined.

It only reads their books

Every answer is pulled from your child's own grade-level coursebook pages — no searching the open web, no wandering off the syllabus.

It teaches the school's way

The board's own teaching notes shape how an idea gets explained — used quietly in the background, never shown to the child.

It spots homework

Worksheets and answer keys are used only to recognise homework. When it matches, Lantern switches to hints and questions — never the finished answer.

It stays in their year

Ask something years ahead and your child gets a kind “you'll learn this when you're older” — not a university-level answer they can't use.

Pictures can't go wrong

Diagrams are drawn from a fixed set of approved templates with checked data. If anything looks off, it quietly falls back to plain words.

Progress is honest

Mastery is worked out in the background and can always be re-checked against what your child actually did — nothing is rounded up to look good.

Where your child's data lives, who can see it, and how long it's kept: read the data & safeguarding note →

Questions

What parents ask us first.

Will it just do my child's homework?

No — and this is the part we've engineered hardest. Lantern holds the worksheets and answer keys for your child's course specifically so it can recognise when a question is homework. When it matches, the tutor switches into hint mode: it asks what your child thinks first, points them at the right page, and walks them toward the answer instead of printing it.

How do I know the answers are correct?

Every answer is drawn from your child's own coursebook rather than the open internet, and carries a “From your book” tag that opens the exact page it came from. If the tutor can't ground an answer in their material, it says so rather than improvising.

Is it safe for a child to use alone?

It's built for it. The tutor only draws on grade-appropriate curriculum material, stays inside your child's year, and generates pictures only from a fixed set of approved templates. There's no open web access, no other users to talk to, and no content feed.

Won't the stars and streaks just make it addictive?

That was the thing we most wanted to get right. Stars are capped at a fixed number per day and awarded by our servers, not the app, so they can't be farmed. Streaks count time spent reading real books. When the daily quests are done, they're done — there's nothing to grind.

Does my child's school need to use Lantern?

Not at all. The tutor works completely on its own. If their school does use Lantern · Teach, you can optionally connect the two so their teacher sees a summary of home practice — but that's your choice, and reversible.

What does it cost?

We're in a pilot with a small number of schools and families while we build. Get in touch and we'll tell you where things stand and whether there's a place available.

Be an early joiner.