Standards
Which national benchmark each lesson teaches against. This is the page a skills commissioner reads first, and the question almost nobody in the free space can answer.
What is mapped, and what is not
4 lessons are written. The mapping below covers those, and only those. It is not a claim about the 78 planned.
| Lesson | Body | Standard |
|---|---|---|
| Is it safe to put this in? | Skills England | Responsible and ethical AI foundation skills |
| Is it safe to put this in? | DfE | Being safe and legal online, Level 2 |
| What AI at work actually means | Skills England | Technical AI foundation skills |
| Tell a real message from a fake one | DfE | Being safe and legal online, Entry Level 3 to Level 1 |
| Ask it something daft and see what happens | None mapped yet | |
Scope: what I do not teach
The DSIT and DCMS research describes four types of AI user: general AI users, AI implementers, AI specialists and AI experts. Source.
I teach the first two. Not specialists, not experts. Naming what I do not do is how a one-person operation stays credible, and it saves you a meeting.
Note one thing in that research that is often got wrong: there is no separate governance tier. Understanding risk, keeping information safe and judging accuracy are treated as foundational skills common to every tier, including general users. That is the position taught here.
Two things still to verify
Said out loud rather than quietly fixed later.
- The exact competency-to-domain mapping in the Skills England benchmark. An automated read returned a mapping that looks wrong in one place, and this is the framework the paid side aligns to, so it needs checking against the published document by a person.
- The licence statement on the DfE Essential digital skills standards: 2026 document itself, before adapting it rather than citing it.