Forty minutes, the same shape every time.
Every lesson in every book follows one pattern, so a child always knows what comes next and a teacher can run it from the book alone. The biggest part is always doing, on the laptop.
- 1
Story · 3 min
Bilal and Hiba meet the idea in daily life — an apple mandi, a snow day, a family WhatsApp group — and end on a question.
- 2
Watch · 4 min
A short recorded lecture, reached from a QR code in the printed book.
- 3
Warm-up · 7 min
Typing practice, because many children here have rarely used a laptop.
- 4
On the laptop · 16 min
The heart of the lesson: real missions on the laptop, ticked off step by step, with a guess written down before finding out.
- 5
Learn · 4 min
Three to five big ideas and one picture — in the app, cards to turn over and recall.
- 6
Debate · 3 min
One question about fairness, truth or kindness, argued out loud.
- 7
Check · 3 min
A few questions, checked at once. Practice, never a mark; anything missed comes back later.
- 8
Remember
One line to take home.
The rules the whole course keeps
- One step at a time on screen
- Online, a lesson opens one screen at a time with one button to go on: the story line by line, one mission per screen, the big ideas as cards to turn over. The whole lesson is one tap away.
- Projects, not exams
- There are no question papers. Each unit ends in a group project on a real, local problem, marked on a rubric the children read before they start.
- Never laptop-only
- Every lesson carries a "No laptop today?" version, and prints on paper, so a power cut or a broken lab never cancels a lesson.
- Safe for children
- No student email, phone or photo. No leaderboards and no ranking. A child's guesses are private, even from their teacher, so they can guess freely and be wrong.
- Written for Kashmir
- Apples from Sopore, saffron, Dal Lake and the Kani weavers — and where ideas came from, like al-Khwārizmī, whose name gave us the word algorithm.
- Aligned, not copied
- Matched to CBSE Computational Thinking & AI and Skill Subject 417, the UNESCO AI Competency Framework for Students, and AI4K12.