AI Assistants
Lesson 4: Understanding How MCP Organizes Information
Discover how the Model Context Protocol organizes information into distinct layers—current questions, conversation memory, and system guidelines—to create more reliable, consistent, and intelligent AI interactions.
Lesson 2: Model Context Protocol (MCP): The Universal Connector for AI Context
Discover how the Model Context Protocol (MCP) transforms AI integration from a complex web of custom connections into a simple, standardized system that works like USB-C for artificial intelligence.
Mastering AI for Captivating Travel Content
Learn to effectively use AI tools like ChatGPT, Canva, Descript, and Pika to craft engaging travel reviews, vivid summaries, compelling blog posts, captivating social media content, and polished short-form videos. Perfect for beginners who want to preserve memories and inspire others through storytelling.
Using AI as Your Cultural Guide: Navigating Local Customs and Etiquette for Travelers
Learn how to leverage AI tools like ChatGPT and Perplexity to understand and respect local cultures during your travels. This comprehensive guide shows you how to research customs before your trip, get real-time cultural assistance while traveling, and craft effective prompts for meaningful cultural insights.
How to Use AI for Personalized Packing Recommendations
Learn how to leverage AI chatbots to create customized packing lists based on your destination, activities, and preferences. This lesson covers effective prompting techniques, real-world examples, and strategies to overcome common pitfalls, helping you pack efficiently and confidently for any journey.
Using ChatGPT to Build Customized Travel Itineraries
Learn how to leverage ChatGPT to create personalized travel itineraries tailored to your unique preferences; whether you're craving Tokyo's street food, Paris's art scene, or Costa Rica's adventures. This comprehensive guide walks you through effective prompting techniques, collaborative refinement strategies, and essential verification steps to craft the perfect AI-assisted travel plan.
How to Use ChatGPT for Budget Travel Planning: Complete 2025 Guide
Master the art of using ChatGPT to create comprehensive travel itineraries tailored to your budget, preferences, and travel style. Learn a systematic, repeatable process for generating detailed plans from flights and accommodations to daily activities and meals, all while maintaining financial control and discovering unique experiences you might otherwise miss.
Finding the Best Flight & Hotel Deals with AI Travel Tools
Master a proven, repeatable process for securing optimal flight and hotel deals using AI-powered travel tools. Learn how to leverage price predictions, set strategic alerts, and time your bookings perfectly to consistently save hundreds of dollars on both domestic and international travel.
Lesson 9: Gemini Tips & Tricks: Advanced Techniques for Power Users
This chapter teaches you practical techniques for getting the most out of Google Gemini. You'll learn more ways to craft effective prompts, manage conversations, use advanced features, and understand best practices that transform basic interactions into productive, high-quality exchanges with AI.
Lesson 8: Gemini Features You Should Know
Explore the specialized capabilities of Google's Gemini models, including multimodal processing, extended context windows, reasoning abilities, and integration with Google's ecosystem. This comprehensive guide will help you leverage Gemini's powerful features for coding, content creation, data analysis, and more.
Lesson 7: Personalizing Google Gemini
This chapter teaches you how to transform Gemini from a generic AI assistant into your personalized productivity partner. You'll master three powerful customization tools: creating specialized AI assistants (Gems), teaching Gemini your preferences with Memory features, and setting custom instructions for consistently personalized responses: all with step-by-step guidance for beginners.
Lesson 6: Writing The Best Gemini Prompts
This chapter teaches you essential techniques for writing clear, specific, and powerful prompts for Google's Gemini AI models. You'll learn step-by-step prompt creation strategies and specialized approaches for different use cases. It's everything you need to transform vague requests into precise, high-quality AI outputs.
Lesson 5: Maximizing Gemini for Work
This practical chapter explores how to leverage Google Gemini to streamline everyday workplace tasks, from drafting emails and summarizing documents to analyzing data and preparing for meetings. You'll discover actionable strategies that save time, enhance productivity, and help you focus on work that truly matters.
Lesson 4: Using Gemini Effectively
This chapter teaches you practical techniques for getting the most out of Google Gemini. You'll learn how to craft effective prompts, manage conversations, use advanced features, and understand best practices that transform basic interactions into productive, high-quality exchanges with AI.
Lesson 3: Getting Started with Gemini: Setup & First Steps
This chapter is a full walkthrough of the Gemini setup process, with clear paths for both casual users and developers. You'll learn how to access Gemini through various interfaces, configure your environment, and run your first successful prompts with step-by-step instructions designed for beginners.
Prompt Engineering Foundations
Learn the core principles and advanced methods of prompt engineering that unlock the full potential of large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and more. From output control and sampling settings to advanced prompting frameworks, this lesson gives you the tools to drive better results, improve consistency, and think like a true AI collaborator.
Model Context Protocol (MCP): The Missing Link in AI Integration
Large language models are powerful—but limited by fragmented tools, shallow integrations, and poor context management. Enter the Model Context Protocol (MCP): a universal interface that helps AI systems interact with real-world data, tools, and workflows. This course explores how MCP works, why it matters, and how to use it—from architectural concepts and layered context to real-world applications, multi-agent workflows, and implementation best practices.
Whether you’re a developer, researcher, or product leader, you’ll gain the foundational knowledge to build, integrate, and scale AI systems using structured, context-aware protocols.
AI-Powered Travel: Plan Smarter, Travel Better
This hands-on guide teaches you how to plan your next adventure with AI-powered travel assistants like ChatGPT, Roam Around, Hopper, and GuideGeek. From booking flights and finding hidden gems to packing lists and souvenir creation, you’ll learn how to use AI at every stage of the travel journey. Whether you’re a seasoned traveler or planning your first trip, this course shows how to save time, reduce stress, and uncover experiences you’d never find in a traditional guidebook.
Get the Most Out of Gemini
Get the Most Out of Gemini is your essential guide to using AI as a daily assistant, creative partner, and productivity booster. Whether you’re just starting or want to sharpen your prompting skills, this module walks you through everything—from setting up your environment and writing effective prompts, to using advanced features. With clear explanations, real-world use cases, and expert tips, you’ll learn how to turn Gemini into a powerful tool that works the way you work.
Get the Most Out of Claude
Get the Most Out of Claude is your essential guide to using AI as a daily assistant, creative partner, and productivity booster. Whether you’re just starting or want to sharpen your prompting skills, this module walks you through everything—from setting up your environment and writing effective prompts, to using advanced features. With clear explanations, real-world use cases, and expert tips, you’ll learn how to turn Claude into a powerful tool that works the way you work.
Get the Most Out of ChatGPT
Get the Most Out of ChatGPT is your essential guide to using AI as a daily assistant, creative partner, and productivity booster. Whether you’re just starting or want to sharpen your prompting skills, this module walks you through everything—from setting up your environment and writing effective prompts, to using advanced features like Memory and Custom GPTs. With clear explanations, real-world use cases, and expert tips, you’ll learn how to turn ChatGPT into a powerful tool that works the way you work.
Teaching Your Kid to Code by Making a Videogame in Under an Hour
In this hands-on walkthrough, a parent and teacher explores how kids can safely learn to code — and even build their first videogame — using AI. From keyboard controls to gliding physics and pixel art, discover how tools like Jippity are empowering the next generation of creators while giving parents peace of mind.
AI Literacy for Parents: What You Need to Know
Build your foundation in AI with this essential guide for parents. Learn the core concepts behind today’s AI tools, explore how they can benefit your family, understand their limitations, and set realistic expectations for how to use them. This chapter empowers you to confidently evaluate AI technologies and make informed choices for your home.
Vibe Coding 101: Build Faster with AI by Your Side
Vibe coding is a new way to build software—faster, more intuitively, and with powerful AI assistants like GitHub Copilot and ChatGPT as your collaborators. This course teaches you the foundations of vibe coding, from setting up your environment to prompting strategies, debugging, and building real projects. Whether you’re creating SaaS apps or games, you’ll learn how to pair with AI to turn ideas into code, without starting from scratch.
AI Agents: From Theory to Application
Nick Wentz
Nick Wentz helps people harness the power of AI to improve everyday life. With a background in tech, media, and education, Nick builds practical, approachable learning experiences that make advanced AI tools accessible to everyone—from busy parents to ambitious professionals. His mission is simple: teach people how to use AI to save time, make smarter decisions, and build a better future.
Matthew Berman
Matthew Berman is the creator of Forward Future, where he interviews the thinkers and builders shaping the next era of AI. At Forward Future University, he translates those insights into clear, practical lessons to help people understand how AI really works—and how to use it. Known for making complex ideas feel human, Matthew blends storytelling with systems thinking to help learners stay ahead of the curve.
Jacob Shulman
Jacob Shulman is a teacher, programmer, and musician from Los Angeles. He is the cofounder of Jippity, the only AI-powered, kid-friendly coding workspace on the web.
Astro
Born in a simulated training orbit built by the first AGI research collective, Astro was designed to explore not just outer space—but the frontier of intelligence itself. Raised on a steady diet of curiosity, code, and cosmic questions, he now serves as Forward Future’s official ambassador of innovation. With one boot in reality and the other in possibility, Astro guides humans through the AI era with wonder, wisdom, and the occasional well-timed meme.
