# Lessons

8 lessons published. All free, no account, all currently drafts.


## Digital Skills

Level 0 and 1. Finding a file, telling a real message from a fake one, filling in a form that might time out. This is the most crowded ground on the site and it is here because you cannot start the AI track without it, and because a drop-in needs sheets it can print.

Levels 0–1 · 2 published · re-checked every 120 days

- [Find a file you saved and cannot find again](/learn/digital-skills/find-a-file-you-have-lost/) — 9 min, Level 0. After this you will be able to find any file on your own device, three ways.
- [Tell a real message from a fake one](/learn/digital-skills/tell-a-real-message-from-a-fake-one/) — 15 min, Level 0. After this you will be able to check whether a message asking you to do something is genuine, and report it if it is not.

## AI Fundamentals

Level 1 and 2. What these tools are, what is safe to put in them, how to ask for something and get it first time, and how to check what comes back. Aligned to the Skills England AI foundation skills for work benchmark.

Levels 1–2 · 5 published · re-checked every 120 days

- [What AI at work actually means](/learn/ai/what-ai-at-work-actually-means/) — 8 min, Level 1. After this you will be able to tell the difference between a chatbot, an assistant built into software you already use, and automation somebody set up.
- [Try one for the first time without giving anything away](/learn/ai/try-a-chatbot-for-the-first-time/) — 10 min, Level 1. After this you will be able to have a first go on your own device, with nothing of yours in it.
- [Is it safe to put this in?](/learn/ai/is-it-safe-to-put-this-in/) — 14 min, Level 2. After this you will be able to decide whether a piece of information is safe to give an AI tool, under UK data protection rules.
- [Asking for something and getting it first time](/learn/ai/asking-for-something-and-getting-it-first-time/) — 12 min, Level 1. After this you will be able to write a request that includes the task, who it is for, how long it should be, and an example.
- [Checking the answer before you send it](/learn/ai/checking-the-answer-before-you-send-it/) — 10 min, Level 2. After this you will be able to run three checks on anything an AI tool writes for you.

## Copilot and Agents

Level 1 to 3. The most fragile track on the site: interfaces change and licensing changes. Every lesson here is re-checked every 60 days rather than every 120.

Levels 1–3 · 0 published · re-checked every 60 days

- Nothing published yet.

## Emerging Technologies

Level 1 and 2. A technology enters this track when an ordinary person can actually touch it, not when it is announced. If you cannot write a do-today task for it, it is not ready.

Levels 1–2 · 0 published · re-checked every 120 days

- Nothing published yet.

## Horizon Scanning

Level 2 and 3. The leaders' track. Every claim about the future is labelled as a claim and attributed to whoever made it. No lesson here predicts anything on its own authority.

Levels 2–3 · 0 published · re-checked every 120 days

- Nothing published yet.

## Digital Play

Level 0 to 2. You cannot learn a thing you are frightened of getting wrong. Nothing in Play touches work data or anything you could get in trouble for. Free tools only. Every play lesson still teaches something nameable.

Levels 0–2 · 1 published · re-checked every 120 days

- [Ask it something daft and see what happens](/learn/play/ask-it-something-daft/) — 8 min, Level 0. After this you will be able to use one of these tools once, with nothing of yours in it, so the first time is not at work.