2026-07-13

What Changed

Added the working internal draft of Introducing the RS AI Learning Lab, including an internal placeholder for its future public adaptation.

Replaced the active Zero-to-Hero AI Literacy track with AI Literacy for the Rest of Us, a learner-directed guide where tracks are maps and modules are selectable learning units.

• Preserved the former track route as a clearly labeled compatibility page for dated notes and existing links.
• Renamed the recommended introductory module to AI Without the Hype and preserved its former route as a compatibility page.
• Added the reusable compatibility: true content contract so legacy pages render without appearing in track, module, or homepage cards.
• Updated active track names, dependencies, cards, maps, templates, and planning references; Zero-to-Hero Agentic Literacy keeps its own name and now points to the new literacy guide.
• Clarified the Prompting → Conversation → Context path as suggested rather than required, and left proposed Chatbot Roles and Modes and What’s Possible Beyond Text as unlinked Idea entries.
• Recorded durable decisions for learner-directed participation, Track Guides, optional capstones, global safety and responsibility guidance, and the literacy-track rename.

AI Without the Hype Learning-Design Package

Expanded AI Without the Hype from a sketch into the first complete Learning Lab internal module-development package.

Added:

• Revised learner-facing module structure and explicit learner-directed starting-point language
• Presentation outline and human video-explainer brief
• Facilitator guide, learner reflection worksheet, and safe example bank
• Internal testing plan and updated status-governance evidence
• Issue-ready contributor follow-up work for review, rehearsal, pilot planning, glossary work, and deferred enrichment

The module remains in Drafting for learner availability. It is ready for cold review, camera rehearsal, and a nonauthor facilitator dry run. It is not presented as a public class, finished video, or pilot-tested module.

GitHub Queue and Intranet Coverage

Created nine GitHub Issues for the AI Without the Hype review, rehearsal, pilot, glossary, video, and deferred-enrichment work. They are the contributor-facing queue; no GitHub Project was available for assignment, so they remain in the repository issue inbox.

Audited the source-to-intranet path. The Astro contract now publishes every durable project Markdown note, including project overview, contributor briefs, templates, status-governance evidence, and writing-review notes. Repository-control instructions and the GitHub pull-request template remain intentionally excluded. The sync now fails if a future durable Markdown note is not mapped to an intranet page.

Still in Progress

• Full module revisions, lab and homework design, and facilitator materials
• Human presentation and video packages
• Approved global safety and responsibility guidance, feedback intake, and learner testing
• Optional capstone design, credential research, and community or office-hours operations

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Source: updates/2026-07-13.md