Course 01
AI Fluency: Framework & Foundations
The 4D framework in full: Delegation, Description, Discernment, and Diligence, with the three ways people engage with AI and a practice project threaded through the whole course.
Learn to work with AI, on your own terms.
Twelve free courses on working well with AI: what to hand over, how to ask for it, how to judge what comes back, and what you owe the people who read it. Built on the 4D framework from Ringling College and University College Cork.
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The human side, then the machine side. Take them in order; the reference is there whenever you need to look something up.
Course 02
AI Capabilities and Limitations
An accurate mental model of the machine: next-token prediction, knowledge, working memory, and steerability, each a spectrum from capability to limitation.
Reference
Understand How AI Behaves
The working reference: the 24 fluency behaviors, hallucination, sycophancy, bias, trust as a dial, tokens, context, and how to write an AI diligence statement.
Choose your edition
The same framework in the language of one kind of work. Take the one that matches yours; you do not need the others.
Edition
For Builders
For product people, designers, and makers. Delegating implementation is usually safe; delegating judgment is usually not.
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For Educators
AI as a thinking partner for course design, materials, and assessment, with pedagogical values at the center.
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For pK–12 Educators
Built for the classroom: student privacy, the six ethical tensions, and a personal AI value document you keep alive.
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For Nonprofits
Mission-centered AI: research, grant writing, data privacy, validated analysis, and a seven-part organizational AI policy.
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For Small Businesses
Efficiency that translates to better customer service, plus a one-page AI use policy you can actually keep.
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For Students
Turn AI from a tool that does work for you into a partner that helps you do your work better, and learn for real.
Teach and facilitate
For anyone who has to bring this to a room full of other people.
Course
Teaching AI Fluency
Four teaching approaches, the two loops as curriculum, the assessment triad, and how to make your discipline's tacit knowledge explicit.
Kit
Train the Trainer
Run your own AI fluency workshop: the full session plan, facilitation notes, grade-band exercises, and a participant workbook.
Research
The Research Behind This
What Anthropic's AI Fluency Index found across 50,000 real conversations: iteration tracks every other fluency behaviour, scrutiny falls where output looks finished, and discernment has to be taught.
Where this comes from, honestly. These courses adapt the AI Fluency courseware by Prof. Rick Dakan (Ringling College of Art and Design) and Prof. Joseph Feller (University College Cork), developed with Anthropic and shared under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0. This adaptation carries the same license: free, non-commercial, with attribution. Quiz results and certificates are self-declared and live in your browser; a learning tool, not an accredited qualification.