What is AI?
Start with a plain-language explanation grounded in familiar examples.
- How AI finds patterns in examples
- Why confident answers can still be wrong
- The difference between a tool and a thinking partner
Learn AI
Understand AI without the jargon.
See what AI can do, where it falls short, and how to ask better questions about the tools your family already uses.
Clear guidance. Practical next steps.
Explore the essentials
A thoughtful place to begin
AI in school
Know when AI can support learning and when it can get in the way.
- Use AI to explain, quiz, and brainstorm
- Keep original thinking at the centre
- Follow classroom rules and cite assistance
Think like a fact-checker
Turn uncertainty into a repeatable habit of checking and comparing.
- Look for reliable primary sources
- Separate facts, opinions, and predictions
- Ask what evidence would change the answer
The course
Choose a starting point
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Start here
Two short lessons that give you a shared language for everything that follows.
Understand the tools
See where AI came from, how different models work, and who shapes the tools.
- Where AI came from17 minFree accountAI is about seventy-five years old. Here is what actually changed recently, and why it felt sudden.
- Types of AI models17 minFree accountSort AI by the job it does — writing, recognizing, generating, ranking — and find out which kind already shapes your child’s day.
- How AI sees and hears20 minFree accountPhotos and voice are just more kinds of input. What that changes for you, and what it does not.
- The turning points that shaped AI16 minFree accountSeventy years in a handful of milestones, so you can tell what is genuinely new from what people have argued about for decades.
- Who makes AI23 minFree accountThe three roles behind almost every AI tool, and the six questions that let you size up a company you have never heard of.
Use it with your family
Turn that understanding into practical choices at home and around schoolwork.
- Where AI helps26 minFree accountSeven places AI genuinely earns its keep, each one with the limit that belongs to it.
- Where AI gets it wrong18 minFree accountWhy a machine that predicts likely text produces confident, well-formed, wrong answers — and how to tell in advance which parts of an answer need a source.
- Talking to your child about AI20 minSubscriptionThe conversation itself — what to say at six, at ten, and at fifteen, and what to do when they are already using it.
- Helping with schoolwork19 minSubscriptionWhere the line falls between help and substitution, how to find out what your child's school actually allows, and what to say when nobody has written it down.
Keep going
Turn understanding into family habits.
Use the parent hub to start conversations and agree on expectations together.