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Extracurricular course programs for secondary learners in the AI era.

18 courses

AI Literacy

  • AI

A teaching program that builds genuine AI literacy — not just how to use AI tools, but how they work, what they can and cannot do, and what changes when intelligence becomes infrastructure. Students develop the analytical framework to evaluate AI claims, use AI tools effectively, and think clearly about AI's implications for careers, society, and knowledge itself.

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Financial Careers

  • career

A teaching program that maps the landscape of financial careers with analytical honesty — what each role actually involves, what skills and credentials matter, and how the industry is being reshaped by technology, regulation, and globalisation. Students build career literacy specific to finance rather than relying on prestige signals and outdated assumptions.

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How to Develop Taste

  • meta-cognition

A teaching program that treats taste as a learnable discipline — the capacity to distinguish quality from mediocrity, to make confident aesthetic and intellectual judgments, and to develop the kind of discernment that compounds across every domain. Students build taste through structured exposure, critical comparison, and reflective practice.

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Intentional Thinking and the Human Moat

  • thinking
  • AI

A teaching program that examines which human cognitive capacities remain structurally beyond AI — and how to develop them deliberately. Students explore intentional thinking, judgment, taste, meaning-making, and other capacities that must be built on purpose rather than optimised by algorithm, developing their own 'human moat' in an AI-saturated world.

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Know Yourself and Write About Yourself

  • career

A teaching program that guides students through honest self-examination and then channels that self-knowledge into powerful personal writing — for university applications, scholarship essays, professional profiles, and any context where articulating who you are matters. Students do the interior work first, then learn to write from an examined life rather than a blank page.

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Leadership 101

  • meta-cognition

A teaching program that examines what leadership actually requires — beyond charisma and authority — through research, case studies, and practical frameworks. Students develop leadership skills grounded in evidence rather than mythology, learning how to lead teams, make decisions under uncertainty, communicate effectively, and build the kind of trust that makes organisations work.

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Lessons of Philosophy

  • meta-cognition

A teaching program that makes philosophy practical — not as a history of dead thinkers but as a living toolkit for reasoning clearly, arguing well, and navigating the ethical complexity of modern life. Students engage with philosophical traditions through the questions that still matter, developing the capacity for rigorous thinking that transfers to every other domain.

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The Life Game

  • career
  • meta-cognition

A teaching program that treats life as a strategic landscape — drawing from game theory, decision science, wealth mechanics, career architecture, and philosophy to build the toolkit for navigating a long life intentionally. Students develop strategic literacy: the ability to think about leverage, compounding, risk, and meaning across decades rather than reacting to whatever is in front of them.

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Structural and Systematic Thinking

  • thinking

A teaching program that develops two complementary thinking capacities: structural thinking (decomposing complex problems into their constituent parts and relationships) and systematic thinking (understanding how systems behave, including feedback loops, emergence, and nonlinear dynamics). Students learn to think clearly about complexity.

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Sustainability Innovation

  • innovation

Lead an eight-session course in which student teams take a sustainability concern from their own school or community and turn it into a researched, tested project proposal. It is a distinctive course to put your name to, with a complete teaching package, a full textbook for your students, and student work you can show at the end.

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Future of Computing and Energy

  • future

A teaching program that examines computing and energy as a single coupled system — how each transition drives the other, where the real constraints sit, and what the convergence means for the next thirty years of economic geography, geopolitics, and career landscapes. Students develop the analytical tools to evaluate competing technology claims and separate signal from noise.

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Think Like Mathematicians

  • thinking
  • mathematics

A teaching program that develops the capacity to think like a mathematician — to see patterns, construct proofs, reason abstractly, and approach problems with the structured creativity that mathematics demands. Students move beyond calculation toward genuine mathematical thinking.

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Think Like a Psychologist

  • thinking
  • psychology

A teaching program that develops the capacity to think like a psychologist — to observe human behaviour with scientific rigour, question intuitive explanations, design studies that test claims, and apply psychological frameworks to real-world problems. Students learn to see the hidden structures behind everyday human behaviour.

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Think Like an Economist

  • thinking
  • economics

A teaching program that develops the capacity to think like an economist — to see incentives, trade-offs, opportunity costs, and unintended consequences in everyday decisions and public policy. Students learn the analytical toolkit that economists use, applied to questions they actually care about.

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Innovation — Mechanisms and Mindset

  • innovation

A structured teaching program that equips educators to guide students through the anatomy of innovation — from the conditions that produce breakthroughs to the personal skills that let individuals contribute to them. Students examine historical and contemporary innovation clusters, study the psychology of creative work, and build a daily practice that compounds into genuine innovative capacity.

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