How we teach
Why you can trust what you learn here
This page explains how the lessons are made, how we keep them accurate, and what we do (and don't do) with your data. It describes how things actually work today; anything still being built is marked as planned.
Our promise
We teach AI the way you'd want a patient, well-read friend to teach it: honestly, hands-on, and without hype. Every lesson makes you do something, says when it was last checked, names its sources, and never pushes a particular company's product.
Learn by doing
Every lesson follows the same rhythm: read a little, see it in a picture or an example, then do it. After each idea there's a 20-second "Try it", and the lesson ends with a short quiz you have to pass to move on. You can't finish a lesson by scrolling.
Why? Because pulling an answer out of your own head, and using it on something real, makes it stick far better than rereading. Mistakes are part of it: every wrong answer gets a kind explanation and another try.
Quizzes and exercises are for you, not for grading. There are no marks, and certificates are personal milestones, not qualifications.
Real-world practice, with free tools
The optional practice section in each lesson uses your own tasks: your emails, your plans, your hobbies. Every real-world exercise works with free tools, names at least two options, and never asks you to pay or to enter a password or key on our site. A "Stay safe" box reminds you what not to paste into any AI.
Staying accurate
- Every lesson shows a "Last checked" date and links to its sources, preferring primary sources: official documentation, research papers, and standards bodies.
- Anything that changes quickly (tool names, features, prices, plans) is written as a pattern, with names as examples marked "as of" a month.
- We re-check fast-changing facts every month and update the lesson and its date when something changes. For example, when Mistral renamed its assistant from Le Chat to Mistral Vibe, every lesson that mentioned it was updated.
- A simple way to report an error from any lesson we are building this
How we use AI to make lessons
We use AI to help write lesson drafts, exercises, and quizzes, and to create the illustrations. We think that's the honest thing to say on a site that teaches AI.
Everything follows a written set of rules: plain language, one idea at a time, sources for technical claims, no invented facts, and the same accessibility and privacy rules on every page. Every lesson is reviewed by a person before it's published, and example AI answers shown in lessons are clearly labelled as written for the lesson.
Tool-neutral teaching
We teach skills that carry across tools, not loyalty to one. When we name products, we name several, from different companies, and treat them fairly: strengths and one caveat each. No company pays to be mentioned, and nothing here is sponsored.
Safety and privacy
- What we store today: your progress (which lessons and exercises you've completed) and your practice notes are kept in your own browser. Without an account, nothing is sent to us.
- With a free account coming: your progress will be saved to your account so it follows you across devices. Practice notes stay on your device unless you choose to sync them.
- Your data never trains AI models. We don't use what you do here to train any AI.
- Safety is taught from the start: what not to share, how to check AI's answers, and how to spot AI-powered scams. A free Security & Scam Center is being built.
- Curious Kids (ages 8 to 12) needs no account, and nothing a child does there leaves the device.
Free access
The first 5 lessons are open to everyone. Every other lesson is free too; it just needs a free account (email and password, or a sign-in link by email).
Who makes this
A small independent team who think learning AI should be hands-on, honest, and free to start.