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AI Foundations. Lesson by lesson.

Six units of three lessons each. Twenty minutes a lesson. Built so a curious middle schooler can finish a lesson, learn something durable, and feel a small win — then come back tomorrow.

Unit 1·3 lessons

AI Is Not Magic

Why fluent answers can still be wrong.

  1. 1.1
    What AI actually does
    Sort the things AI does into five honest verbs.
  2. 1.2
    Prediction vs. understanding
    Why a system can be useful without understanding anything.
  3. 1.3
    Why it sounds so confident
    Hallucination, fluency, and the trap of polished answers.
Unit 2·3 lessons

Data Shapes Behavior

The cat-detector lab — find where it breaks.

  1. 2.1
    Examples, labels, and bias
    AI learns from the examples people feed it — and their blind spots.
  2. 2.2
    Edge cases on purpose
    Break a cat-detector on purpose to see what it really learned.
  3. 2.3
    Your dataset audit
    Run a five-question audit on any dataset to find its bias.
Unit 3·3 lessons

Prompting Is Clear Thinking

A reusable card you'll keep.

  1. 3.1
    Role, goal, and context
    The three things every strong prompt tells the AI.
  2. 3.2
    Constraints and format
    Say the shape of the answer you want — and what to leave out.
  3. 3.3
    The 'don't just answer me' move
    Make the AI ask, show its work, and critique itself.
Unit 4·3 lessons

Verification Is a Superpower

Stop trusting first answers.

  1. 4.1
    The claim-check loop
    A four-step loop for checking any answer before you trust it.
  2. 4.2
    Sources that hold up
    Tell a source that holds weight from one that just sounds official.
  3. 4.3
    What would change your mind?
    The one question that separates a belief from a guess.
Unit 5·3 lessons

Build a Tiny AI Workflow

Design a process, not just a chat.

  1. 5.1
    Pick a real problem
    Choose a small, real, repeating annoyance worth automating.
  2. 5.2
    Map the stack
    Break your problem into steps and give each one a verb.
  3. 5.3
    Ship and test your prototype
    Build the smallest version, then hunt for where it breaks.
Unit 6·3 lessons

Privacy, Power, and You

Write your own AI constitution.

  1. 6.1
    Before you paste, ask…
    A ten-second gut-check before you hand AI your information.
  2. 6.2
    Deepfakes and disclosure
    Spot synthetic media — and know when to say you used AI.
  3. 6.3
    Your AI constitution
    Write the personal rules you'll actually keep.

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