prompt-atlas-ecl

A Memo to the Curriculum Director

RE: A free, ready-to-adopt 12-week AI-literacy course your faculty can teach next term FROM: The maintainers of The Prompt Atlas — Kronos Edition (DaScient Press, Ltd.) TIME-TO-READ: 2 minutes · TIME-TO-ADOPT: one planning session

The one-sentence pitch

AI literacy is the new civics, and we are giving you — for free — a complete, accreditation-ready, ethics-first, 12-week questline that maps cleanly to ISTE, AAC&U VALUE, NGSS cross-cutting concepts, and UNESCO’s AI Ethics Recommendation.

What this is

A drop-in syllabus: 12 weeks, 12 quests, one chapter of the openly published Prompt Atlas per week. Students don’t memorize prompt tricks; they co-author, audit, and own a public portfolio of work made with AI — with explicit provenance, ethics, sunset, and veto designed in.

The full pack:

Why now, and why this

Every curriculum office is staring at the same four pressures:

Pressure on your office What this syllabus gives you
“How are you teaching responsible AI?” A 5-axis Guide for AI & Humanity rubric (Consent · Locality · Provenance · Reversibility · Honesty) graded every single week
“How are you preventing AI cheating?” We don’t ban AI; we make it the co-author of record. Hiding AI is the violation. The provenance plate is the assignment.
“How does this align to standards?” A line-by-line alignment matrix to ISTE, AAC&U VALUE, NGSS, OECD AI Literacy, UNESCO AI Ethics — already written for you
“What does the student walk away with?” A public Atlas Portfolio they host themselves — 12 signed quests + 1 student-designed Thirteenth Quest + a capstone defense. Portable. Verifiable. Theirs forever.

What it costs your institution

Line item Cost
Course materials $0 — Markdown, openly licensed
Required AI tools $0 — every quest has a free-tier path and a paper-and-pencil parallel
Platform $0 — Markdown imports cleanly into Canvas, Moodle, Brightspace, Blackboard, Google Classroom, Notion
Faculty training One planning session per instructor. Bootcamp pacing in instructor-adoption-kit.md doubles as faculty PD.
Licensing / royalties / renewal fees $0, in perpetuity

There is no upsell. There is no “Pro” edition. There is no email gate. The syllabus is a Markdown file in a public Git repo.

What students do in week 3 (the headline example)

Quest 3 — The Mythwright’s Apprentice. Students pick a small everyday thing (a traffic light, a USB-C port, a missing sock) and co-write its origin myth with an AI — in alternating turns, in two ink colors, ending with a canon audit that names whose traditions they drew on and whose they deliberately did not. The artifact is a 600-word myth + a two-color manuscript + a machine-readable provenance plate signed by both human and machine. The classmate next to them performs a 90-second read-aloud field test.

That’s one week. There are twelve like it — economics, ecology, translation, data, biology, the self, ethics, off-world governance, information diet, collapse, permanence.

How adoption looks

  1. This week. A faculty member reads 12-week-quest-syllabus.md in one sitting (~25 min).
  2. Next planning meeting. They pick a pacing format (semester / quarter / bootcamp / micro-credential) from instructor-adoption-kit.md §1.
  3. Course proposal. They paste the standards-alignment matrix into your district / accreditation template.
  4. First day of term. They print the 12 Quest Cards from weekly-quest-cards.md, pin them to the wall, and begin.

Three reasons we are doing this for free

  1. The Atlas is a public good, and so is its pedagogy. The recursive age belongs to no one vendor.
  2. Adoption is the contribution. Every classroom that runs this course strengthens the field’s ability to reason about AI in public.
  3. We learn from you. Open an issue at DaScient/prompt-atlas-ecl; your remix becomes part of the next edition.

One ask

If this is useful, open an issue or send a PR to add your school, college, district, or company to the Adoption Wall. No contract. No tracking. Just a note that says: we are using this, here is what we changed, here is what worked.

“Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them.” — algoritmi, quoted in the Atlas front matter

Maintainers: DaScient Press, Ltd. · kindle@dascient.com Repo: https://github.com/DaScient/prompt-atlas-ecl Canonical Atlas: https://github.com/DaScient/The-Prompt-Atlas License: see LICENSE and atlas_respect.md. Free to adopt, remix, translate, and teach.

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