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The Build Kit

Printable cards for each stage of the DEEP Build Loop: Brief it · Build it · Break it · Fix it · Teach it. Use them to take a classroom tool you make with AI from an idea to a lesson, with a check of what students learned.

The Kit holds your reference cards and starter tools. The Build Room is your live workshop workspace: canvas, spec and test notes, saved in this browser. Activities open with the presenter; tool guides are available anytime.

Working alone? Start here
  • Pick your level by answering the two door questions on card 01.
  • Set up your tool first, with card 09.
  • Follow the Loop in order. The times on the cards are a guide.
  • Find a tester for Break it (card 05). Pair with anyone at a different level; if you can't, pair with someone who hasn't seen your build.
  • Finish with a commitment (card 07): test your tool with one real user within two weeks.

The cards

19 of 19 cards

  1. Across the LoopThe DEEP Build LoopThe method on one page: start with the change, not the tool; the five steps of the Loop and the block of the session for each; the complexity ladder; the three levels and the two door questions; the two rules.15 minOpen card
  2. Brief itOutcome CanvasAn A4 worksheet to fill in before you open any AI tool: the problem, the outcome and a before measure, the user, three success checks, your red lines, the rung you are aiming for, and a partner's question.25 minOpen card
  3. Brief itBrief it: the specTurn your Outcome Canvas into a one-page spec that becomes your first prompt, in three versions: fill in the blanks, a headed template, or a blank page with two constraint cards.15 minOpen card
  4. Build itBuild itBuild Sprint 1: turn your spec into a thin slice that passes one success check, predict before you look, and save a version at the 1:15 save point.50 minOpen card
  5. Break itBreak it: test like an engineerTest like an engineer: swap with a partner at a different level, run their success checks exactly as written, log each failure as check, expected and what happened, and check the content by hand.20 minOpen card
  6. Fix itFix itBuild Sprint 2: prioritise one real failure or untested boundary, make a bounded repair, explain the change, retest the final artifact and save a station with honest evidence.20 minOpen card
  7. Teach itTeach itThe close of the session and what comes after: one build you'd steal, a commitment to test with one real user within two weeks, a before-and-after check of learning with one class, where the tool fits in a lesson, and the decisions the tool must never make.5 minOpen card
  8. Across the LoopSafe building and quality checklistEight safe-building checks for everyone before anyone else uses your tool, the data protection law and age limits behind them, then twelve quality checks for any classroom tool and which of them each level uses.5 minOpen card
  9. Build itWhere to BuildThe four tools of the day (Canva Code, Google AI Studio, Claude Code, Codex) and the AI chat tools: what account each needs, how to get a single web page out of each, how to give it to students with no login, the fallback that works everywhere, and the room's safety rules.5 minOpen card
  10. Across the LoopLevel 1 ● Blue: track cardYour Level 1 learning plan: make Show then Respond from a useful menu task, explain input, rule and response, and leave with peer-tested checks, a saved version and honest limits. Teacher workflows use their own prompts and checks.180 minOpen card
  11. Across the LoopLevel 2 ▲ Orange: track cardYour Level 2 learning plan: author your own behavioural rules and normal, invalid and boundary tests before generation, build one useful Respond tool, explain a design choice, and retest the final artifact with a peer.180 minOpen card
  12. Across the LoopLevel 3 ■ Black: track cardYour Level 3 learning plan: sketch content, interface and state, plan before coding, enable a colleague content edit without logic changes, test two boundaries and regressions, and explain two coding choices. Publishing and further auditing add optional depth.180 minOpen card
  13. Brief itThe Build MenuNine ready-made problems (seven for a class, one for staff training, one for your own preparation), each with an outcome, three success checks, a red line and two fill-in-the-blanks prompts: a quick Show build, then a Respond build.25 minOpen card
  14. Across the LoopStretch and constraint cardsPrintable cards for purposeful depth: S13 content handoff and S14 two-boundary tests are Level 3 core work; other stretches follow passing checks. Constraints help Level 3 test its own spec.20 minOpen card
  15. Teach itGallery walk: station card and feedback slipThe gallery walk protocol, a station card to stand beside your build, and a feedback slip for visitors, with the room's wording on photos and sharing.20 minOpen card
  16. Across the LoopGlossary: engineering words in teaching termsThe words you will hear today, each with a plain definition and the nearest thing in teaching.5 minOpen card
  17. Teach itShip It: Publish on GitHub PagesKnow exactly what is public, then publish your single-file tool on GitHub Pages using only a web browser, update it safely, and take it down.20 minOpen card
  18. Across the LoopWhere This Goes NextThe skills ladder beyond the masterclass, from describing a tool to directing a coding agent, and where the line sits.5 minOpen card
  19. Fix itMake an AgentTurn your spec and checks into the job description and test for a small agent that does one job for you, the teacher: a spec checker, and at Level 3 a read-only red-line checker. Write them today; build the agent after the session. Built on Anthropic's and Google's current advice.Open card

Starter tools

Working examples to open in your browser and adapt for your own class.

Want help taking one tool all the way into a lesson? Build Classroom Tools is a cohort built on these cards, in development. The Build with AI page will show the first cohort when it opens.

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