AI literacy without the lecture

AI is too important to be boring.

Build a conversational understanding of artificial intelligence in a few minutes at a time — through cartoons, plain English, quick quizzes, mind maps, limericks and links worth following.

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Free for individual learning and classroom teaching. Corporate and organisational use is licensed.

AIU cartoon sketch on applying AI to business

AIU cartoon sketch on long and short term memory

Serious ideas.
Sketchy knowledge.

30 visual AI sketchesQuick knowledge checksMind maps & limericksNo login needed

Use it your way

Made for curiosity.
Useful in the real world.

AIU is deliberately easy to enter and easy to share. Learn alone, use a sketch to explain an idea to a class, or bring the approach into a workplace where AI needs to make sense to everyone.

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Learn

One sketch at a time. Start with the picture, read as much as you need, test yourself, then move on.

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Teach

Use the cartoons to start informed conversations about AI without beginning with equations, hype or fear.

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Bring it to work

License the existing library or commission bespoke cartoons and learning around your own business, AI use cases and vision.

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Motivational design

Not cartoons added to a course.
A course designed around motivation.

AIU is informed by John Keller’s ARCS-V model. Each layer of the experience has a job: earn attention, establish relevance, build confidence, reward the effort and help the learner keep going.

A · Attention

Make me look

Cartoons, visual metaphors and humour interrupt the usual wall of AI text.

R · Relevance

Make it mine

Everyday examples — and bespoke corporate use cases — connect ideas to the learner’s world.

C · Confidence

I can get this

Plain language, layered explanations, mind maps and quick checks make progress visible.

S · Satisfaction

Worth my time

The joke, the recognition and the quiz result reward the learner for staying with the idea.

V · Volition

Keep going

Bite-sized sketches and optional deeper links let learners choose their path and continue.

How ARCS-V shapes AIU →

“The cartoon gets you in. The relevance makes you care. Understanding gives you confidence. The joke rewards you for staying.”

That is the design logic behind AIU Academy.

From A Sketchy Knowledge of AI

Take a look.
You’ll get the picture.

The academy opens out the cartoons from the book with extra routes into the idea: quizzes, limericks, mind maps, external links and prompts for discussion.