Teach AI with the lights on.

You don’t have to be an AI expert to teach AI. AI Glassbox is built so you can learn one step ahead of your class — or right alongside it. Every idea is a small, visible thing you can open on a projector in ten seconds, talk about, and let students play with. No installs, no logins for a quick demo, and no student data ever leaves the browser.

Everything that teaches is free, forever. We never paywall a lesson.

Why it fits a real classroom

Zero setup

Just a browser — works on a school Chromebook. Nothing to install, no extensions, no accounts needed to run a demo or open a simulation.

No privacy paperwork

The platform collects no student data. Code runs entirely in the browser on built-in, synthetic datasets — nothing a child makes is uploaded or stored about them.

Jump in anywhere

Every concept is self-contained. Slot a single topic into a unit you already teach, or follow the Roadmap end-to-end. Each step names its light prerequisites.

Understandable the night before

Each simulation carries a kid-level definition, an intuitive math explanation, and discussion questions — so the prep is the material. You’ll get it before class.

How to use it in class

Open a simulation on the projector. Browse the Simulation Gallery or pick a step from the Roadmap. Read the kid-level definition together, then drag, slide, and poke at it as a class.
Ask the discussion question. Each sim ends with a “check your understanding” prompt — use it as a turn-and-talk, an exit ticket, or a quick mini-project.
Let them build (optional). The Studio lets students write a few lines of Spectra to train a real model and watch it learn. They can save and even deploy a finished app for classmates to try — public text is screened by rule-based moderation before anyone sees it.
Take it home. A finished project downloads as a single file that runs offline in any browser — to keep, to show family, or to submit to you. (Downloads can’t be re-uploaded; that’s part of the safety model.)

Tip: the simulations are designed to be projector-first — big, legible, and driven by a few sliders, so the whole room can follow one shared screen.

Safe by design — the short version

Most of our safety isn’t a setting that could be switched off — the risky capabilities simply aren’t in the platform to begin with. For your peace of mind (and your IT department’s):

No internet from student code. Spectra has no network command, so a student program cannot reach the web or any outside service.
No uploads, ever. Data comes only from built-in synthetic datasets. There is no path to bring a file in, and nothing a child makes leaves their browser.
No personal data. An account is just a username and password to save work — no names, no email required to learn. No chat, no messaging, no ads, no tracking.
Public text is vetted. App titles, descriptions, and usernames are screened by deterministic, rule-based moderation before anyone can see them. No AI judges children.

The full promises are stated plainly on the About & Safety page.

Lesson plans — a unit per pillar

The curriculum is one continuum in eight zones, from the math foundations to neural networks. Treat each pillar as a unit and each simulation as a ready-to-run lesson: open it on the projector, explore it together, then use its built-in question as the wrap-up. Steps marked Ready have an interactive sim today; others are on the way.

Build a printable unit

Pick the concepts you want to teach and we’ll write the lesson plans for you — objectives, a hook, materials (the simulation plus a ready-to-run Studio starter), real-world links, a little history, a mini-project, and the unit’s assessment rubric. Nothing starts blank: everything is filled in, and every word is editable — click any text to change it. When it looks right, Print / Save as PDF uses your browser’s own print, so nothing you type is uploaded or stored. Unit 1 is pre-selected to show you a real plan.

Support this work

AI Glassbox is made by SenSym, LLC, a sibling to Arcadia. Learning here is always free and always will be. If it helps your classroom and you’d like to chip in so it can keep growing, a donation path is available — it’s a way to say “this mattered,” never a gate on any lesson.