CivicPlay.AI

Overview
A practical, plain-language introduction to AI literacy and safety for community and recreation teams. Learn core concepts, common tools, and simple guardrails to keep work private, accurate, accessible, and people-first.

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Promise
Cut the hype. Get working knowledge and safety habits you can apply the same day. Reduce risk while improving output quality.

 

You’ll Learn

- What AI is and isn’t. Where it helps. Where it fails.
- Core tools you’ll actually see at work and how they differ.
- Safety basics: privacy, consent, PII handling, records, accessibility.
- Risk spots: bias, hallucinations, over-reliance, copyright.
- Defensive prompting: context, constraints, sources, verification.
- Choosing safe use cases in public-sector and nonprofit settings.
 

Live Walkthroughs

- Real tasks from rec settings: summarize data, draft blurbs, translate.
- Failure demos: spot bias, leaks, and hallucinations, then fix them.
- Run a Safety Quick-Check on an example workflow (privacy, accuracy, access).
- Produce accessible outputs (reading level, alt text, headings).
 

You’ll Leave With

- AI Literacy Glossary.
- Safety Quick-Check checklist (privacy, accuracy, accessibility).
- “When to use AI” decision guide.
- Slide deck and Q&A notes.
 

Who It’s For
Staff, supervisors, leaders, and boards who need AI fluency without jargon and want clear guardrails for safe, people-first use.