Resources
Handouts and slide decks, free to print
Everything we hand out in a class, and the decks that go with them. All PDF, all free, and none of it asks for your email address.
Start here
The intro class, and the two warm-ups that follow it. If you have never used an AI assistant, work through these in order.
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Let’s Talk About AI
The intro class
What it is, why it matters, and how to try it today. Covers the one thing that makes AI different from every technology before it, the AI you already use without noticing, and a first thing to try before you leave.
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Getting Comfortable with AI Chatbots
A page of things to actually type. Jokes, limericks, idioms, and some genuinely odd corners of the internet. The point is not to be productive — it is to play with it until it stops feeling formal.
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AI Chatbot Practice Exercises
Structured exercises that pick up where the warm-up leaves off: asking, refining, and pushing back until the answer is the one you actually wanted.
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How to Make Your AI Prompts Shine
A quick guide for seniors
The gap between a disappointing answer and an excellent one is almost always in how the question was asked. Fourteen pages on asking better ones.
Future Tech Series
The talk series — innovation, insight, evolution. Each session has a deck for the room and a handout to take home.
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Cyber Safety: Then, Now, and Tomorrow
Every scam — past, present and future — depends on urgency, isolation and emotion. If you feel two of the three, pause. Traces the playbook from the Nigerian Prince era through to cloned voices.
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Surveillance & AI
Five things you can do today
You do not have to accept being watched. Five actions, each under five minutes, each with an immediate effect — starting with the advertising ID your phone hands to every app you open.
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Will There Be Jobs in the Future?
Robots, digital workers, and the humans in between
Humanoid robots that exist today, a timeline running to 2041, and what all of it means for work. The handout maps every idea in the talk to research prompts and credible sources.
Written as a student research handout — pitched a little differently from the rest.
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AI and Automobiles
From the car that warns you to the car that drives itself
What the sensors on a modern car actually do, the industry’s 0–5 scale for how much a car drives itself, and where the line sits today between a car that helps and a car that decides.
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Data Centers & The AI Revolution
Senior friendly
Where AI actually lives. The buildings, the power and the water behind the answer that appears on your screen a second after you ask.
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Staying safe
Scams, passwords, and getting your details back out of circulation. Written in large print for reading away from a screen.
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Logins & Security
Large print
Passwords that hold up, the second check worth turning on, and how to recognise the message that is trying to trick you.
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Getting Your Name Off The Lists
Large print
Fewer junk calls, less post, and fewer companies holding your details — with the phone numbers and web addresses you need to make it happen.
Sorting true from false
What to trust online now that anything can be generated — and how to check before you forward it.
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Truth Hygiene in the AI Era
A short set of habits for deciding what to believe, now that a convincing photograph, voice or article can be made by anyone in a minute.
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Internet Truth, Spam & AI
Where we are headed
What happens to the open internet when generating a plausible page costs nothing — and what that means for how you search.
Practical guides
Short, single-purpose sheets for a specific job.
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Medicare Prompts
Ready-made questions to put to an AI assistant when you are comparing plans. One page, printed and taken to the table.