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AI literacy shouldn't depend on your zip code.
Every kid will grow up directing, checking, and living alongside AI. Hi, Bot's free library teaches the thinking underneath — on paper, with a photocopier, at a kitchen table. No tuition. No student logins. No laptop cart.
Pick the path that fits where you are. Each one starts this week with what you already have.
For underfunded schools
Schools & classrooms
Title I and underfunded schools, after-school programs, and libraries
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For homeschool families
Homeschool on a budget
Homeschool families and co-ops without a tech budget
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For families at home
Families at home
Parents and caregivers who want enrichment without the price tag
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- 14
- classroom debate lessons, grades 3–12
- 3
- free season bundles, licensed to copy
- 48
- lesson email course for grown-ups
- $0
- to use any of it
› What “AI-ready” means
Four skills every kid will need.
Having an AI app isn't the gap — nearly every family has a phone. The gap is knowing how these systems work and how to work with them. Every free resource here builds one of these four skills.
- Understand
- AI predicts from patterns in examples. It doesn’t know things the way people do — and that explains most of what it gets wrong.
- Direct
- Break a job into steps, ask clearly, and give the machine the right examples. Directing well is the new version of doing it yourself.
- Verify
- Fluent isn’t the same as true. Check claims, follow citations to the source, and notice when a confident answer is wrong.
- Decide
- When to use it, when not to, what data you’re handing over, and who gets hurt when a system is unfair. That call stays human.
› What can you run?
Start with paper. Add screens only if you have them.
Filter the library below by what your room actually has.
Tier 1
Paper only
Debate lessons, card games, printables, and season bundles. A photocopier and scissors.
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Tier 2
One shared screen
The AI concepts field guide and free videos, projected or passed around.
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Tier 3
A phone or laptop each
The self-paced AI Foundations course for kids and the 48-lesson First Principles email course for grown-ups.
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› The free library
Everything here is free to use today.
Classroom AI debate lessons
Paper onlyGrades 3–12. Teacher guide, vocabulary, timed agenda, rubric, standards, student handouts, exit ticket. Ungated PDFs.
Free season bundles
Paper onlyThree themed sets of ~12 sessions — AI Literacy, Maker Studio, Unplugged CS — licensed to photocopy and give away.
Kitchen-table card games
Paper onlyPrint-ready games (Loop Slap, Bot-Builders, Matchbox Brain, and more) plus free browser games — no email to download or play.
Free printables library
Paper onlyScreen-free AI and maker activities with a plain-language guide for the grown-up.
The Model Lab
One shared screenTrain a real tiny model in the browser — label, pick features, score, catch overfitting. All taps and sliders, no typing. Free; Pass households unlock more stations.
AI Hardware Atlas
One shared screenFree 3D exhibits from transistor to data center. Spin, X-ray, explode; talk-about-it questions at the end. No login.
How the internet works
One shared screenA free 3D trip from one tap to the computer that answers — device, Wi-Fi, packets, cables. Ages 8–16.
AI concepts field guide
One shared screenPlain definitions for the words kids hear — model, training, hallucination, bias — with examples.
AI careers to explore
One shared screenJobs that build AI, work around it, or use it — each with a free printable or debate to try that week. No salaries, no hype.
Key figures
One shared screenFourteen people behind the ideas, in order. Read one page and send that same link to a child or student. No account.
Key figures — short book
One shared screenThe same fourteen, as one mini textbook: contribution, observations, and conclusions for each person.
What is AI? (under 5 min)
One shared screenAn evergreen start-here explainer of what people mean by AI in everyday talk — pattern prediction you can finish before a chatbot invents a definition.
AI Foundations course
A device eachA free, self-paced course for curious kids: why AI sounds confident, how data shapes it, how to check it.
First Principles (48 lessons)
A device eachA free email course for parents, teachers, and volunteers — one short lesson a day, with a certificate at the end.
Guides for grown-ups
One shared screenWhere to start if you’re not technical, and a plain guide to the AI tools kids are already using.
The thinking isn’t the expensive part.
Tutors, coding academies, and prep programs sell AI readiness by the hour or the semester. The thinking underneath — how a model predicts, why it sounds sure when it’s wrong, how to check it, when to say no — fits on a sheet of paper. So we put it on paper and made it free.
Free stays free. The paid Activities Pass and the Richmond clubhouse keep the lights on. Printed class sets for schools that can’t run a copier are covered by sponsors — either one the school already knows, or one we help find.
Questions people ask
Is this really free?
Yes. Every lesson, game, bundle, and course linked from this page is free to use. Some downloads ask for a grown-up’s email so we can send the file; nothing asks for a card, and no student ever needs an account.
Do we need computers or internet in the room?
No. The debate lessons, card games, printables, and season bundles run on paper. You need a printer or photocopier once; after that the lesson runs with no screens at all.
Does the teacher or parent need to know AI already?
No. Every lesson includes the background and vocabulary a grown-up needs, in plain language. If you can read a recipe, you can run a session.
What ages is this for?
Kids 8–16. Debate lessons are sorted into grades 3–5, 6–8, and 9–12; card games work for 8 and up; the First Principles course is for adults.
Can we photocopy and share it?
Yes. The season bundles ship with a giveaway license so a school, library, or co-op can copy them for every learner. Debate lessons and card games are free PDFs you can print as often as you like.
Do you collect data about students?
No. There are no student logins. The only sign-ups are grown-ups who ask us to email them a file or a lesson, and they can unsubscribe in one click.
Who pays for this?
Free stays free. The paid Activities Pass and the Richmond clubhouse keep the lights on. Printed class sets for schools that can’t run a copier are covered by sponsors — either one the school already knows, or one we help find.
› Pass it on
Know a school, co-op, or family who needs this?
Send them the link, or print the one-pager for a front office, library desk, or PTA table.
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