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Learn to use AI well

Everything here comes from our AI Smart workshop. Read the mini-lessons, then have a go at the games - no sign-up, nothing saved to a server.

Six mini-lessons

The basics, fast

Tap any lesson to open it.

1 What is AI?

Artificial intelligence is technology that learns patterns from huge amounts of data and uses them to help solve problems that normally need human thinking - like answering questions, recognising images, or writing text.

It’s not magic and it’s not alive. It’s very good pattern-matching.

2 Where you already use AI

You probably use AI dozens of times a day without noticing. It chooses what you see and helps things work:

TikTok “For You” YouTube recommendations Netflix suggestions Google Maps routes Snapchat AI
3 How to write a good prompt

A prompt is just the instruction you give an AI. A better question gets a better answer. Be specific: say who it’s for, what you want, and what format you need.

Try the Prompt Improver below to see the difference in action.

4 How to fact-check AI

AI can sound completely confident and still be wrong - this is called a hallucination. Always check important facts against a reliable source before you trust or share them.

Treat AI as a helpful assistant, not an all-knowing oracle.

5 AI and your future career

AI will change many fields - medicine, law, business, engineering and education among them. But the skills that stay valuable are very human:

Critical thinking Creativity Communication
6 Using AI without cheating

The line is simple: use AI to help you think better, not to think for you. Ask it to explain, quiz you, or check your reasoning - don’t pass its work off as your own.

Have a go

Four quick challenges

The same activities students try in the workshop. Nothing is saved to a server - refresh to start again.

Game 01

AI or Human?

Read each short poem and guess who wrote it. Four rounds.

Game 02

Fact or Fiction?

True or false? Tap your answer for instant feedback.

Game 03

Prompt Improver

Same task - “Explain volcanoes to a Year 7” - written three ways. See how a sharper prompt gets a better answer.

Game 04

Would you trust AI to…?

There’s no right answer - just your judgement. Pick for each one.

Myth-buster
Does AI have its own mind?

“It is not just a tool - it has its own mind.” - a real student response

Responsible AI pledge

The Future Ready student charter

A short promise about how you’ll use AI. Take it if you’re in.

  • I’ll check important facts before I trust them.
  • I won’t pass AI work off as my own.
  • I’ll use AI to learn, not to skip learning.
  • I’ll question what I read and think for myself.
You’re in. Thanks for taking the pledge.
Plain-English glossary

The words, without the jargon

AI
Software that learns patterns from data to do tasks that usually need human thinking.
Prompt
The instruction or question you type to tell an AI what you want.
Hallucination
When an AI confidently makes something up that sounds right but isn’t true.
Model
The trained “brain” of an AI - the system that turns your prompt into a response.
Training data
The huge collection of text, images or sound an AI learned its patterns from.
Bias
Unfair patterns an AI picks up from its data, which can lead to unfair results.
Prompt engineering
The skill of writing clear, specific prompts to get better answers from AI.
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Downloads

Printable summaries from the AI Smart workshop. PDFs to be attached on launch.

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