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AI Literacy 1

AI Literacy 1 from AI-School offers a complete introduction to artificial intelligence and language models. This course is specifically designed for teachers and education professionals who want to take their first steps in the world of AI.

The course consists of 4 main modules with various sub-modules and practical exercises. Below you'll find a complete overview of all components:

Module 1: Introduction to Artificial Intelligence (AI)​

Get acquainted with the basics of artificial intelligence and discover how language models work and are applied.

What is a language model?​

A language model is a type of artificial intelligence specifically designed to understand, analyze, and even generate human language.

  • Recognizing patterns in language

    Language models learn by recognizing patterns in large amounts of text. This allows them to quickly generate, complete, or structure texts in various ways.

  • Limitations of language models

    Language models are powerful tools for education, but have clear limitations such as limited knowledge, timeliness, and the risk of hallucinations. It's important to understand these limitations for responsible use.

Well-known providers​

In the world of artificial intelligence, many companies are active developing language models. AI-School works with a selection of leading providers such as OpenAI, Google, Anthropic, Meta, and Mistral.

  • How to choose a suitable language model?

    Start with the default model. Not satisfied? Then try another model via the options in the response and compare the results.

Prompt engineering​

Prompt engineering is the process of learning to ask your questions to AI as clearly and effectively as possible. With smart questions, you get better answers.

  • Writing a letter or email

    Learn how to write emails and letters more easily with the help of AI.

  • Creating a lesson plan

    Use AI to quickly create a good lesson plan.

  • Voice chat

    Voice chat is a new way of interacting with AI, beneficial for people with dyslexia and those with disabilities.

Module 2: Tools and Features​

Discover all tools and features in AI-School. The tools ensure you always have access to current information or can quickly obtain suitable teaching materials.

Creating/generating images​

In AI-School, you can easily generate images using the built-in image tool. Text-to-image models are advanced AI systems that generate unique images based on a short text description.

  • Well-known image model providers

    Discover the most well-known providers of text-to-image models such as OpenAI (DALL·E), Stability AI (Stable Diffusion), Google (Imagen), and Midjourney.

  • Searching for images

    With the Image search tool, you can easily and quickly find relevant images from the internet, directly within AI-School.

Creating practice questions​

Easily create practice questions and receive immediate feedback using AI tools.

Internet searching​

With internet search, language models become even smarter and current information is also accessible with AI.

  • Searching Wikipedia

    If you're looking for information from Wikipedia, use the special Wikipedia tool for quick results.

  • Requesting weather

    With special weather tools, AI can also display weather forecasts.

  • Wolfram Alpha

    Wolfram Alpha is also included in the tools, great for difficult mathematical problems and graphs.

  • Google Routes and Google Places

    Google apps Routes and Places can also be consulted via AI-School.

Checking AI content​

With assignments, you as a teacher can check to what extent AI has been used and thus have a conversation about it in class.

Module 3: Document-based Chatting​

By adding documents, you can use AI even more effectively. Learn how to make AI collaborate with your own documents and sources.

What is Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG)?​

RAG makes it possible to let AI work with your own documents and sources. The model searches for relevant information from your documents and uses it to provide better answers.

Multimodal input: adding images​

Learn how to work with images in prompts. AI can not only process text but also analyze and use images in your conversations.

  • Chatting with your own files

    Learn how to add your own files to AI-School and chat with them.

  • Examples of working with files

    Efficiently analyze files with AI for various educational applications.

  • Examples with images

    Quickly create teaching materials with AI or digitize handwritten tests by adding images to your prompts.

Audio files​

Learn all about using audio files. Audio files are digital sound recordings that you can use for various educational purposes.

  • Transcriptions

    Creating transcriptions of audio files is a convenient way to quickly process meetings or parent-teacher conversations.

Module 4: Ethics & GDPR​

The course concludes with important topics around ethics, privacy, and responsible AI use.

What is GDPR?​

The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is the European privacy law that protects personal data. Learn what this means for AI in education.

  • GDPR and AI

    Safe use of AI: how do you do that and how is it organized in AI-School? GDPR sets strict requirements for the use of personal data in AI applications.

Bias in AI models​

AI models can sometimes exhibit bias due to one-sided training. Learn what is being done to prevent this and how to deal with it.

  • Energy issue

    Working with AI comes with costs, both financially and in terms of energy consumption. It's important to discuss how to handle this.

  • AI and Copyright

    Learn about copyright and AI. What are the risks and get practical tips for responsible use.

Thinking critically​

AI doesn't understand nuances and contexts, which is why it's important to view the answers with a critical eye. Learn how to remain critical when using AI by asking questions about reliability, source, and ethics.