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Digital Foundations

Start with the things you touch every day: files, devices, and accounts. The cloud and working safely with AI are the payoff at the end, not the start.

Time
~3-4 hr
Lessons
15
Exercises
6
Level
Basic
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What you'll learn

  • Name the everyday tools you already use, your device, accounts, browser, files, and the internet, and how they stack together.
  • Find, save, and organize files by reading a path, and make, format, and save a document, then export it to PDF.
  • Set up strong passwords, a password manager, and a second step at login, with recovery codes saved before you get locked out.
  • Recognize a key, secret, or token, know the two places never to put one, and revoke and rotate it if it ever leaks.
  • Explain how your device reaches the internet, read a web address, spot a private connection, and download safely.
  • Judge whether information online is true, the same skill you use to judge an AI answer, and spot phishing across email, text, and calls.
  • Explain what the cloud really is, files on someone else's computer behind your login, built from the pieces you already learned.
  • Apply the one AI-safety rule before you paste or upload, and produce a one-page map of your devices, accounts, and data to carry into Module 2.

Description

Most AI training assumes you already know your way around files, devices, and accounts. This course does not. It is the grounding-first on-ramp: concrete things in your hand before the abstract ones, your own stuff before the cloud. Cloud and AI are where the path is headed, but they are the payoff at the end, never the entry point.

Fifteen short lessons in plain English, each ending with one small thing to actually do on your own device. You start by naming the five tools you already use, then build up through files, documents, your device, storage and backups, accounts and passwords, keys and secrets, networks, the web, judging information, email, and keeping your personal info safe. The thread running through all of it is the habit of knowing where your stuff lives and who can reach it.

The course closes by tying it together: the cloud is just storage plus an account plus a key plus a network, all behind your login, and working safely with AI is one clear rule, before you paste or upload, ask whether it is yours to share. You walk out with a short inventory of your own devices, accounts, and data, and the ground to stand on for Module 2.

Lessons

15 lessons in this micro-course