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Thursday 4th June 2026
Know it, Question it, Use it Wisely
A nationwide day for schools, students, and parents to explore AI together.
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What is AI Awareness Day?
National AI Awareness Day (4th June 2026) is a new nationwide campaign designed to build AI literacy across UK schools. The model is simple: schools commit to running just one activity.
Our goal is to create a unified moment where the entire education community comes together to engage positively and critically with AI — preparing the next generation for a world increasingly shaped by intelligent technology.
Traction
500,000 reach so far
The support for AI Awareness Day 2026 is growing fast. With schools now signing up across the UK, we estimate we're already reaching over 500,000 students and we're confident we'll hit 1 million in the coming months. We're thrilled to welcome our interested schools, charities, and partners. Together, we're building a national movement.
28,000 students annually
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115,000 primary teachers have accessed Barefoot
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Nationwide Network of Computing Educators
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Over 6.5 million young people have been reached through NCCE-supported programmes.
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Works with over 19,000 schools, every local authority in the country
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Computing CPD and resources for teachers and leaders
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Supports approximately 270,000 teachers annually
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295,000 children directly reached in UK Classrooms
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Over 250 UK schools, colleges, and Multi-Academy Trusts (MATs) have entered the certification pipeline
The world’s biggest education technology event
Black and Global Majority-led community initiatives and the room where AI policy, regulation, and power are shaped.
36 schools across Surrey, Hampshire and South London.
London's largest Further Education college 32,000 students
400 businesses in Central London
20 schools across Bedfordshire and Luton
38 academies, 25,000 students
Alternative Provision Free School (Academy)
50 schools, 33,000 students
15,000+ tech leaders
20,000 tech professionals
Transformational Youth Entrepreneurship For All
Digital strategy and delivery consultancy
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AI Awareness Day — 4th June
Live Streams
There are many ways to engage with AI Awareness Day. We have planned live streams across different age groups, themes, and topics.
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09:15 – 10:00
AI in Our World — KS2 Live Assembly
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Tech She Can
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14:00 – 15:00
AI in Everyday Life — KS3 Live Assembly
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Tech She Can
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07:45 – 08:10
Leadership Breakfast Briefing on DfE AI Materials
Teachers
Chiltern Learning Trust
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Campaign Updates
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Interactive KS2–KS5 computing taster for non-specialist teachers: block logic, binary, Python tracing, loops, and recursion — with curriculum insight and classroom pedagogy notes.
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Capital City College teamed up with AI Awareness Day to give students an opportunity to participate in shaping the future of technology and education. Bibiana M shares her…
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Capital City College teamed up with AI Awareness Day to give students an opportunity to participate in shaping the future of technology and education. Kajitha Sriganeshavel shares her…
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🎬 The Wait is Over: Our Main Premiere is LIVE! To Share with Students and Teachers The ultimate AI collaboration video is officially live right now! Bring the…
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As educators across the UK, we have all witnessed the sudden shift in our classrooms. What started as curiosity has quickly hardened into a worrying trend: some students…
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We have brought together the top AI and Digital Leads from across different Multi-Academy Trusts (MATs) and schools to share their best insights into how both students and…
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Capital City College teamed up with AI Awareness Day to give students an opportunity to participate in shaping the future of technology and education. Here, first-year Creative Media…
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Live at 07:45 – 08:10 (UK time). LIVE — Google Meet Breakfast Leaders Briefing – DfE Materials on the Safe and Effective Use of AI This 25 minute…
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We’re under 3 days away from AI Awareness Day 2026!We’re excited to announce the premiere of a special video you can show on Ai Awareness Day to Staff…
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Every year, Bett works with educators across the UK to better understand how AI is shaping teaching, learning and school leadership. Through our annual AI in Education reports,…
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For AI Awareness Day, look no further than the pitch to see how Artificial Intelligence is transforming the beautiful game. Think back to Arsenal’s dramatic 1-0 victory over…
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We’re pleased to announce that BBC Bitesize has published a collection of AI-related teaching resources for Ai Awareness Day! Schools can use these when planning or delivering activities…
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The Momentum is Real Despite the calm of half-term, teachers across the country are signing up and preparing their students. Schools are planning activities. Communities are getting involved.…
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Bett The world’s largest edtech show is officially championing AI Awareness Day on 4 June. The Bett was one of the first organisations to support our campaign. With…
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We’re delighted to share that Pearson is championing #AIAwarenessDay! As the world’s lifelong learning company, Pearson is seeing how AI is shaping teaching and learning every day. Their…
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Serving 7 schools across the West Midlands, including communities in Dudley, Stourbridge, Staffordshire, Halesowen, Kingswinford, and Wombourne, Invictus Education Trust is helping shape the future of education for…
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Six-claim media literacy challenge for teachers: verify headlines, AI outputs, and viral posts before you share — with scoring, sources, and discernment habits.
Event
Live at 13:30 – 14:30 (UK time). LIVE — MS Teams A keynote for parents and teachers on raising children in the age of AI. This is a…
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Only 9% of UK teachers feel confident teaching AI. BCS has a free course to fix that That number comes from BCS’s own website. Not a think tank.…
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Interactive analysis of the NEU State of Education: AI 2026 survey — teacher adoption, critical thinking, policy gaps, and views on the DfE AI tutor plan.
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AI Awareness Day is in 1 week(s). Sign up and get your school involved.
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10 AI questions, 15 seconds each — score points, earn speed bonuses, and climb the leaderboard.
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Partner
We are incredibly excited to announce that Bourne Education Trust (BET) has joined National AI Awareness Day on 4th June! Supporting 36 schools across Surrey, Hampshire, and Richmond…
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Take your students through an 30 minute taster session of AI for Good 2.0 – a brand new, free, project-based AI course where learners design and build real…
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A 6-step interactive explainer for teachers — tokens, attention, layers, prediction, and training, with classroom analogies and no jargon.
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An interactive glossary of the AI terms educators hear most in 2026 — from agentic AI to vibe coding — with classroom angles for every buzzword.
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🎨 AI Awareness Day is just around the corner on 4th June! 🎨 Teachers, we know how fast the tech landscape is shifting and how hard it can…
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🔥🔥Teachers! have you heard of AI Agents yet?🔥🔥 Not just chatbots. Something bigger. AI agents are AI systems programmed to complete tasks, make decisions, and take actions with…
CPD
🗓️ Thursday 4 June | 3:30 PM | Virtual On AI Awareness Day, we’re proud to bring you AI for All, a free teacher training CPD session created…
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We are just under 3 weeks away from AI Awareness Day and we have some exciting news to share! We have lots of activities available, from 5-minute lesson…
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We’re delighted to announce that the Raspberry Pi Foundation has joined AI Awareness Day (4 June 2026) as an official partner. 🎉 The Raspberry Pi Foundation is a…
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1 month to go 🚀 AI Awareness Day is on 4th June and we’re on track to reach 1 million students. One day. One activity. Every student deserves…
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We’re excited to announce Tech She Can as a partner for National #AIAwarenessDay. Tech She Can is a registered charity on a mission to change the ratio of…
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We’re thrilled to announce Barefoot Computing and Computing At School as a partner for National hashtag#AIAwarenessDay. Barefoot Computing, powered by BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT, has been…
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We’re delighted to welcome Education Links as a partner for National hashtag#AIAwarenessDay. We engage with thousands of schools across the country, but sometimes alternative provision is left out…
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To support hashtag#AiAwarenessDay across primary and secondary schools in London and beyond, we launched an AI Ambassador initiative. We are delighted to partner with Capital City College and…
Resource
A whole-school assembly resource on how AI predicts patterns, why hallucinations happen, and how to use AI safely in everyday life.
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A tutor-time/assembly resource on how AI predicts patterns, why hallucinations happen, and how to use AI safely in everyday life.
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A 15-minute tutor-time video activity: demystify how machine learning works and why “thinking” is a misleading metaphor.
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Draw everyday objects and watch as an AI tries to guess what you’re sketching in real time. A fun way to see how machines learn from patterns.
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Draw imaginative prompts (like styles or abstract ideas) and see if an AI can recognise your artwork. A more artistic twist on AI guessing games.
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Test your ability to tell the difference between human-made and AI-generated content.
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Chat and guess: are you talking to a human or an AI? A modern take on a classic AI question.
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Explore how artificial intelligence may change careers, skills, and workplaces in the future.
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Train simple machine‑learning models in the browser and see how data shapes predictions — perfect for classroom demos about data → algorithm → prediction.
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Play through a fictional social media town to learn how disinformation spreads — then spot the same tricks in the real world.
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Use your device camera to find real‑world objects that match emojis while an AI model tries to recognise them in real time.
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Sing along to Queen and get a score for how closely your pitch, melody and timbre match Freddie Mercury — a fun doorway into AI audio analysis.
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Create simple custom Alexa skills from templates — stories, quizzes and lists — without writing code, great for “how does Alexa work?” lessons.
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Hands-on AI quests and classroom-friendly challenges that walk students through data, models and real-world applications of AI.
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Interactive activities that explain how deepfakes work and help students practice spotting manipulated media.
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An educational game where learners use data and machine learning to help rescue rhinos from poachers.
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A one-hour live stage show that gets audiences thinking critically and creatively about AI, art, and human imagination.
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5-minute starter on AI literacy, prompt engineering, and the skills students will need in an AI-shaped future.
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Quick 5-minute starter on deepfakes, online safety, and how to verify if content is genuine.
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5-minute starter exploring how AI relies on data centres, electricity, and water – and what that means for the planet.
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Quick 5-minute starter: understand that AI predicts patterns rather than “thinking”, and why hallucinations occur.
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Using AI to amplify human creativity, not replace it.
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AI Awareness Day is in 6 week(s). Sign up and get your school involved.
News
Ten schools have committed to running AI Awareness Day. Every movement starts somewhere — and this one just did.
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We now have resources across all five themes: Safe, Smart, Creative, Responsible, and Future. Explore the toolkit.
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A 15-minute tutor-time discussion on why AI needs water, what it means for communities, and what tech companies are doing about it.
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AI Awareness Day is in 8 week(s). Sign up and get your school involved.
Partner
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AI Awareness Day is in 12 week(s). Sign up and get your school involved.
Announcement
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We’re partnering with Capital City College We’re partnering with Capital City College to train Student Ambassadors who will support schools on AI Awareness Day delivering assemblies, activities, and…
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Capital City College teamed up with AI Awareness Day to give students an opportunity to participate in shaping the future of technology and education. Rio shares their view on Artificial intelligence and what questions we should be asking.
The debate in every staffroom is the wrong one. Ban it or embrace it. Restrict or allow. Two sides, endless arguments. None of them change the reality. AI is already in every student’s pocket.
So the question was never “should students use AI?” The question is: are we teaching them to interrogate it, or just pretending they are not using it?
I’m Rio. Sport Science student and AI Ambassador. I’ve led yoga and boxing sessions, taught anatomy, coordinated volunteers, and presented to rooms of people. When you lead others, you cannot fake it. You need to know the material. I build that knowledge the same way I build my college assignments: from lesson notes, textbooks, podcasts, peer-reviewed research, and real conversations with lecturers. Those are my foundations. Build your own framework first. AI can add to them or edit them. AI cannot build them for you.
That is the distinction that matters.
Most students have never been taught it. That is not their fault.
According to Bett’s 2025 AI in Education report, nearly half of UK teachers have received no AI training from their school. If the adults guiding students can’t engage with it critically themselves, how are students supposed to learn to?
Some educators call AI a crutch. For students who copy and paste, they are right. But banning AI because students misuse it misses the point. Many students misuse it because no one taught them otherwise.
The students who succeed will not be the ones who avoided AI. They will be the ones who learned to argue with it. To look at a confident answer and ask: “is this true?”
That is the skill. Can you use AI and still think for yourself.
When calculators entered classrooms in the 1970s, teachers called them a crutch. Today we consider calculator literacy a basic skill, which has been normalised. AI will follow the same pattern.
The worst outcome isn’t students using AI. It’s students who never learned to push back – who accepted the first answer because it was fast and polished. We solve that not by banning anything, but by teaching students how to interrogate a tool that will never tell them when it’s wrong. That’s the conversation schools aren’t having yet.
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National AI Awareness Day is here! — and it’s a UK first.⁵
For the first time, the UK has a national day dedicated to AI literacy in schools. That’s not a small thing. It’s the result of a year of conversations, collaboration, and quiet determination from a community that believed this country’s young people deserved a proper introduction to the technology shaping their future. Today, that introduction […]
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Experience the Computing Curriculum — Non-Technical Teachers!
Interactive KS2–KS5 computing taster for non-specialist teachers: block logic, binary, Python tracing, loops, and recursion — with curriculum insight and classroom pedagogy notes.
Principles
Five Core Principles
Our educational framework is built on five foundational principles that guide how we approach AI learning.
Safe
Ensuring safe and secure interactions with AI technologies.
Smart
Building intelligent understanding of how AI works.
Creative
Harnessing AI as a tool for creativity and innovation.
Responsible
Promoting ethical and responsible use of AI.
Future
Preparing for an AI-shaped future with confidence.
Our AI literacy
Our AI literacy contains these five principles.
Aim
What We Hope to Achieve
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Demystify AI for students, parents, and educators — making it accessible, understandable, and less intimidating.
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Develop critical thinking skills that enable young people to evaluate AI-generated content and make informed decisions.
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Build digital resilience so students can navigate an AI-powered world safely and confidently.
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Inspire creative and responsible use of AI tools across the curriculum and beyond the classroom.
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Foster a national conversation about the role of AI in education, skills development, and the future of work.
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Encourage students, educators, and parents to know what AI is, question how it works, and use it wisely in their everyday lives.
Display board
Create a display board for your school
Use the layout below as a guide to build a physical display in your school or staff room.
LOGO
AI Awareness Day 2026
Know it, Question it, Use it Wisely
SAFE
Protect your privacy and personal data when using AI tools.
Did you know: AI systems can be biased if trained on biased data. Always question the source and verify information!
SMART
AI processes info faster than humans, but humans are better at creative problem-solving!
Did you know: ChatGPT was trained on 45TB of text data — that's equivalent to reading every book in a large library!
CREATIVE
AI can generate art and music, but the most creative works come from human-AI collaboration!
Did you know: AI can recognise patterns humans miss and generate creative solutions in seconds!
RESPONSIBLE
Every AI decision affects real people. We must consider the impact and use technology responsibly!
Did you know: AI can process information 1 million times faster than humans, but we must use it ethically!
FUTURE
By 2030, 85% of jobs will require AI skills. Start learning now to be future-ready!
Did you know: The AI industry is growing 40% each year — learning AI skills now prepares you for tomorrow's jobs!
QR CHALLENGES
Scan QR codes to discover your school's AI policies and guidelines!
School Policy
AI Guidelines
This Week's Questions
- How can we ensure AI tools are fair?
- What are AI's strengths vs humans?
- How can AI enhance creativity?
Student Responses
"AI should be transparent"
"Humans understand emotions better"
"AI helps brainstorm, I add creativity"
Students write answers on sticky notes here
AI Leaders & Innovators
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Add photos of AI leaders like Andrew Ng, Fei-Fei Li, Yann LeCun, etc. Set students the challenge: find 3 living people working in AI!
Student Spotlight
Student Name
Add student work or project here
Student Name
Add student work or project here
- Select a prominent wall, noticeboard, or display area in your school or staff room.
- Follow the blueprint layout: create five principle panels (Safe, Smart, Creative, Responsible, Future) each with a key message and practical tips.
- QR challenges: Set up QR codes for students to scan & investigate. Link to your school's AI policy and our AI guidelines or activities.
- Add interactive elements: Include facts, tips, or QR codes linking to games and quizzes using our interactive resources.
- This week's questions: Add thought-provoking questions like "How can we ensure AI tools are fair?" with space for student responses.
- Student responses: Provide space for sticky notes or written answers where students can share their thoughts and ideas.
- AI leaders & innovators: Include photos and names of people working in AI.
- Set them a challenge: Ask students to find 3 living people working in AI and add their discoveries to the display.
- Student spotlight: Feature student work or projects to showcase pupil achievements and creativity.
Activities
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AI as Your Creative Partner
AI Relationships?
VIDEO
AI Relationships?
A discussion starter using a short viral clip: 20% of boys aged 12-16 are seeing peers enter relationships with AI chatbots. Why? And what does that mean for us?
How Does AI Actually ‘Think’?
DISCUSSION
How Does AI Actually ‘Think’?
Quick 5-minute starter: understand that AI predicts patterns rather than "thinking", and why hallucinations occur.
Extra Resources
Handpicked Quality Resources
A curated selection of interactive AI games and learning tools from trusted organisations.
AI Quests
GAME
AI Quests
Hands-on AI quests and classroom-friendly challenges that walk students through data, models and real-world applications of AI.
Alexa Skill Blueprints
HANDS-ON
Alexa Skill Blueprints
Create simple custom Alexa skills from templates — stories, quizzes and lists — without writing code, great for “how does Alexa work?” lessons.
Defend the Rhino with AI
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Defend the Rhino with AI
An educational game where learners use data and machine learning to help rescue rhinos from poachers.
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