AIforBC Learning · Community pilot kit
Helpful AI skills. More confidence, less pressure.
A four-session, plain-language pilot curriculum designed for community delivery with live support, large-print materials, and practical safety habits.
Community pilot and sponsoring-partner inquiries are open. No public cohort date or individual price is being represented as confirmed.
Learner outcome
Use AI for a few helpful everyday tasks while protecting privacy and checking what is true.
The goal is not to turn every learner into a heavy AI user. It is to build practical choice, healthy skepticism, and a repeatable safety routine.
- Explain in plain language what generative AI can and cannot do
- Complete a useful everyday task without sharing sensitive information
- Check an AI answer against a trusted source
- Pause, verify, and seek help when a message, voice, image, or offer may be fraudulent
Four-session pilot
Slow enough to practise. Practical enough to remember.
0175 minutes
Meet AI without the hype
Learner outcomeLearners understand that AI predicts plausible outputs and can be helpful, wrong, or misleading.
Guided practiceCompare a search result, an AI answer, and a trusted official source using a simple everyday question.
Take-home aidWhat AI can and cannot do card
0275 minutes
Ask for everyday help
Learner outcomeLearners can ask for a draft, explanation, plan, or translation while keeping private details out.
Guided practiceUse a fictional scenario to draft a message, create a checklist, or simplify public information.
Take-home aidSafe question recipe
0375 minutes
Check before you trust
Learner outcomeLearners can identify a claim, find its source, compare information, and say when they are uncertain.
Guided practiceCheck an AI-generated answer using a government, institution, or original source.
Take-home aidStop, check, compare card
0475 minutes
Protect yourself from scams
Learner outcomeLearners can recognize urgency, impersonation, unusual payment requests, and synthetic media warning signs.
Guided practiceWork through a family-emergency call, a deepfake investment video, and a suspicious support message.
Take-home aidPause, verify, tell someone plan
Accessible delivery
Designed around the learner—not the software.
- Large text, strong contrast, plain language, and visible step numbers
- One task at a time with repetition and time for questions
- Live device help and a non-digital option for every essential concept
- Fictional practice information rather than personal, health, or financial details
- Permission to observe without creating an account
- A trusted-person and official-channel verification routine
Complete pilot kit
Ready for a real community-room test.
The facilitator still needs local onboarding, venue planning, device support, and a partner-approved escalation process.
Facilitator
Complete session guide
Objectives, timing, scripts, activities, accessibility, safety, evaluation, and debrief.
Open guide →LearnerLarge-print workbook
Plain-language explanations, safe question recipe, fact-check routine, and scam-response plan.
Open workbook →EvidenceSource-backed guide
Why the program prioritizes confidence, critical evaluation, privacy, accessibility, and live support.
Read the evidence →Evidence and boundaries
Safety is part of the curriculum.
Official Canadian guidance supports tailored digital literacy, critical evaluation, privacy, scam awareness, accessible design, and live community support for older adults. The program does not provide medical, legal, financial, or emergency advice, and learners are never asked to enter real sensitive information during practice.