Overview
Get Started Here
Choose a Learning Lab doorway that fits your time, confidence, and preferred way to learn.
Choose one useful idea, try a practical activity, or follow a learning path. No coding experience is required.
There is more than one way to learn
AI learning does not have to begin with a course, a textbook, or a blank prompt box. Some people learn by reading. Some need to see an idea demonstrated. Some understand it after trying it themselves. Others benefit from conversation, repetition, or human guidance.
The RS AI Learning Lab brings those approaches together. A guide may lead to a module. A module may lead to a lab. A lab may become part of a class. Each format can stand on its own; none is the “real” version of learning.
The point is not one correct answer. It is better judgment.
Choose a doorway
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Follow a learning path
Tracks connect related ideas into a larger journey. Follow one from beginning to end, or use it as a map and visit the parts that matter now.
Best for: learners who want structure, teams building a shared foundation, and people returning over several sessions.
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Explore one idea at a time
Modules focus on one skill, question, or challenge. They work independently and connect to the tracks and labs around them.
Best for: a specific question, a focused lesson, or a meeting that needs one useful topic.
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Learn by trying
Labs use AI, paper, scenarios, role-play, comparison, observation, critique, or structured conversation. The point is not one correct answer; it is better judgment.
Best for: practical experience, individual experimentation, class activities, and small groups.
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See what it looks like
Worked examples make the process visible: the questions, choices, revisions, mistakes, and human judgment behind a completed activity.
Best for: learners who do not want to begin from a blank page and facilitators preparing to teach.
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Read and reflect
Guides, field notes, vocabulary, examples, and written walk-throughs let you pause, reread, and think at your own pace.
Best for: independent learners, researchers, people using accessibility or translation support, and anyone who wants time to think.
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Find a quick reference
Cheatsheets and glossary entries help you look up one term or move without starting a full lesson.
Best for: a quick reminder, a meeting, or a question that needs a compact answer.
Learn together later
Classes and open-lab sessions are in development. They will combine short explanations, demonstrations, discussion, and hands-on activity when dates and facilitation are ready. Observing will remain a valid way to participate.
Use a Lab Notebook when a lab offers one
Some labs include an Interactive Lab Notebook. It is a local, in-browser workspace for notes, drafts, observations, and decisions. No account is required, and it does not save or send your notes automatically.
- Work through the activity. Add notes, drafts, observations, and decisions as you go.
- Reflect and give feedback. The closing section asks what helped, what was unclear, and what you would change.
- Download your record. Choose Download Markdown for a readable copy or Download JSON for a structured copy before you leave the browser session.
- Share only what you mean to share. Copy or download the feedback summary you choose to share; it excludes private step notes. Email submission is planned but not available yet.
Try the pattern: open the Forty-Five Seconds Lab Notebook, then use its Reflection and Feedback section before downloading your copy.
Build your own learning path
You do not need to choose one format forever. Start with a guide, follow a module, try a lab, look at a worked example, and revisit when the next question appears. Think of this as an invitation, not a required pipeline.
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Come as you are
- Beginners are welcome; you do not need to know how to code.
- Many activities work with a phone, tablet, or laptop. Tool requirements are named on the resource.
- Use only approved tools and follow your organization’s information-handling guidance. Do not enter confidential, personal, regulated, or otherwise restricted information unless explicitly permitted.
- Observing is a valid way to participate.
- Free tools will be used whenever practical. Paid tools or subscriptions will be identified clearly.
- Move at your own pace. Written alternatives are provided where they are practical.
Start small
You do not need to pick the perfect track or understand the entire field. Choose one idea. Read one guide. Try one lab. Bring one question. That is enough to begin.
Source: docs/get-started-here.md