AI Foundations

Welcome to AI Foundations

5 min

What Is AI? Pattern Matching, Not Magic

15 min

Free AI Tools You Can Use Right Now

Try It Now: Your First AI Conversation

Week 1 – Unit 2: Free AI Tools Available to You

A practical tour of what you can use today, at no cost

3 lessons1 exercisequiz

The AI Tool Landscape Today

ChatGPT and Gemini: Deep Dive

AI for Swahili and Local Languages

8 min

Try It Now: Tool Comparison

Week 2 – Unit 3: The Art of Prompting

How you ask is everything, prompting as a core skill

3 lessons1 exercisequiz

Iterative Prompting: Getting Better Results

Why Prompting Is a Skill

Try It Now: Prompt Rewriting

Week 2 – Unit 4: AI for Learning and Studying

Use AI as your personal tutor for any subject

3 lessons1 exercisequiz

AI as a Study Partner

Summarising and Note-Taking with AI

Practising and Being Tested by AI

8 min

Try It Now: Study Session

Week 3 – Unit 5: AI for Writing and Communication

Better emails, essays, messages and reports, faster

3 lessons1 exercisequiz

AI Writing Assistant: The Basics

Professional Emails and WhatsApp Messages

Essays, Reports and Formal Writing

Try It Now: Email Upgrade

Week 3 – Unit 6: AI for Research and Fact-Checking

Use AI to research and know when not to trust it

3 lessons1 exercisequiz

AI as a Research Tool

Verifying AI Output: Practical Methods

Misinformation and Deepfakes

Try It Now: Fact-Check a Response

Week 4 – Unit 7: AI for Creativity and Content

Images, video scripts, business ideas and more

3 lessons1 exercisequiz

Generative AI: Beyond Text

AI for Social Media and Content Creation

Building a Small Business Idea with AI

Try It Now: Content Sprint

Week 4 – Unit 8: AI and Your Data: Privacy Fundamentals

What AI knows about you and how to protect yourself

3 lessons1 exercisequiz

Your Data and AI Models

The Kenya Data Protection Act

Protecting Yourself Online

Try It Now: Privacy Audit

Week 4 – Unit 9: Thinking Critically About AI

Hype versus reality, how to evaluate AI claims

3 lessons1 exercisequiz

AI Hype and How to Spot It

Bias and Fairness in AI Systems

The Future of Work and AI in Kenya

Try It Now: AI Claim Audit

Week 5 – Capstone: Capstone: Your Personal AI Toolkit

Document, teach forward and earn your certificate

1 lessons3 exercises

Reviewing What You Have Learned

Building Your Personal AI Toolkit

Task15 min

Teach Forward: Share One Concept

Task15 min