Computers, from the ground up
What a machine actually is, how to sit at one without fear, and how to make it do what you mean. Fluency starts with losing the awe.
Social Work
The school under the banyan
Through Science Divine Vidya Peet I teach children the internet, computers, and AI, free of charge, twice every week. It is the quietest thing I do, and the one I'm proudest of.
Why access matters
Every few years a technology arrives that quietly redraws the line between who gets to build the future and who merely lives inside it. The internet did it. AI is doing it now. And each time, the children least likely to be handed these tools are the ones who need them most.
A child in a village with a curious mind is no less capable than a child in a city with a laptop. The difference is access: a teacher who shows up, a machine to sit at, permission to be curious out loud. That is a gap I can actually do something about, so I do, two days a week, every week.
I don't want these kids to only consume what the machines produce. I want them to understand how the machines work, to bend them to their own questions, and to walk out believing the future is a thing they get to help design.
What the classes hold
Two sessions a week, free, no conditions attached.
The open internet
How to find your way around the web, how to ask it good questions, and how to tell signal from noise. The literacy that decides who gets to participate.
AI as an instrument
What these new tools can and cannot do, and how to use them for your own thinking. I want the kids bending the machines to their questions, not the reverse.
Seva, done quietly
This page is deliberately separate from everything commercial on this site. There is nothing to buy here and no funnel behind it. Teaching these classes is a practice, the same way sitting still is a practice.
If you want to help, teach a child near you how to use a computer. The curriculum writes itself once you start.
Want to know more about the school?
Write to me and I'll tell you what we're building, what works, and what the kids taught me this week.
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