System Instructions, User Requests and Conflicting Goals
If a user tells an AI to do something that its application has already told it not to do, which instruction should guide the answer? Open Full Article...
Computing, AI and Digital Skills
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Digital knowledge helps learners understand, create and act safely in a technology-rich world. This Computing, AI and Digital Skills category focuses on computers, programming, networks, data, artificial intelligence, creativity and safe digital participation. The online lessons are written for curious children and teenagers, with clear explanations that introduce important ideas without assuming specialist knowledge.
Learners can build subject vocabulary, examine useful examples and connect computing, ai and digital skills to wider questions across school subjects and everyday life. Each lesson aims to explain not only what happens, but how we know and why the topic matters.
The category encourages learners to ask questions, compare evidence and recognise where an answer depends on context, interpretation or further investigation. Difficult concepts are broken into manageable steps so that learners can develop understanding rather than simply memorising facts.
Whether the subject is being studied as part of home education or home schooling, used for revision or explored through personal interest, these lessons support independent thinking and confident discussion. New material can be added as the collection develops.
Browse the lessons below to start learning.
Writing Instructions an AI Can Actually Follow
Which instruction gives an AI a clearer destination: “Make this better”, or “Rewrite this explanation for a 12-year-old in 150 words using one example… Open Full Article...
Why Context Changes an AI’s Answer
How can the same AI give two very different answers to almost the same question? Open Full Article...
AI Takeover: Could It Really Happen?
How can a computer recognise a pattern without understanding it as a person does? Open Full Article...
Feedback Loops: How Autonomous Machines Correct Their Own Actions
How can a robot keep its balance when the ground suddenly changes, or maintain speed when its load becomes heavier? Open Full Article...
How Robots Sense, Decide and Act: From Sensors to Movement
How can a robot stop before hitting a wall if it does not see or think like a person? Open Full Article...
Programming Robots: How Rules Control Their Decisions and Actions
How could a delivery robot know what “the correct room” means if nobody tells it? Open Full Article...
Prompt Engineering: How to Get Better Results from AI
What happens when two learners ask an AI to explain evaporation? Open Full Article...
How Machines Learn to Spot Patterns in Data
How can a computer spot spam, recommend a song or identify a cat in a photograph without a separate hand-written rule for every possible message, tune… Open Full Article...
Can Quantum Computers Break the Internet? Secret Messages and Modern Cryptography
Explore how modern cryptography protects online information, how symmetric and public-key encryption work, and why a future fault-tolerant quantum computer could threaten systems such as RSA and elliptic curve cryptography. The article explains plaintext, ciphertext, cryptographic keys, digital signatures, hashing, qubits, superposition, Shor’s algorithm and the limits of current quantum computers. Open Full Article...
