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AI literacy
AI & Critical Thinking · Foundations

AI Literacy: Building Your Foundation

Before you can outsmart an algorithm, you need to understand how it actually works. This 4-part course builds the core AI literacy skills every young person needs — how AI operates, how to direct it well, how to follow its reasoning, and how to check whether it's right.
4 Hours Ages 11–19 Foundational General Audiences

What You Will Learn

Most people use AI every day without ever learning how it actually works. This course changes that. You'll learn what's really happening behind the chat window, how to write instructions that get you far better results, how to follow an AI's reasoning instead of just accepting its first answer, and how to check whether what it's telling you is actually true.

Think of this as your starting toolkit. Once you've got these four foundations in place, you'll be ready for deeper investigative work — like putting AI on trial yourself in AI Detectives: Can You Outsmart the Algorithm?

By The End, You Will Be Able To

Explain what AI is actually doing behind the tools you use every day
Write clear, precise prompts that get noticeably better results
Follow an AI's reasoning across a conversation, instead of losing track of it
Check and verify AI-generated information before trusting it

Course Hours

1
 AI with Agency
What AI actually is, and how it operates
2
 The Art of Precision Prompting
Getting far better results by asking better questions
3
 Following a Thinking Thread
Staying in control of an AI conversation as it develops
4
 Verifying AI
Checking AI-generated answers before you trust them
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