Almond Learning — Digital Literacy That Builds Resilience
Almond Learning is a K12 curriculum designed to help young people navigate digital systems safely and confidently.
The curriculum combines teacher-led group instruction with interactive, digital experiences, all underpinned by neuroscientific principles.
By using engaging, game-inspired simulations to demonstrate gambling-derived mechanics that are present in digital and real-world products increasingly targeted at young adults, Almond Learning teaches practical skills for online decision-making, financial choices, digital consent, and emotional regulation.
16 lessons
Progressing through four units - mathematics, behaviors, product mechanics, and whole systems. Culminating in a Capstone lesson.
Designed for generalists
Full support materials guide teachers through the vocabulary, key concepts, anticipated student responses and differentiated support. No maths or psychology specialist knowledge required.
Integrated architecture
Fully integrated with Google Classroom, designed for easy integration with additional learning management systems as required.
Unique multi-disciplinary collaboration
World-leading experts in cognitive neuroscience and developmental psychology, curriculum writers with decades of teaching and district management experience, and industry veterans with lived experience building modern reward systems such as gaming technology - this is the team that created Almond's DSRI curriculum from scratch.
This has produced a curriculum that naturally builds from mathematical concepts to behavioral impact and through to digital product mechanics, informed by deep understanding.
In this way, the curriculum provides students with fundamental understanding of how products work, and awareness of how their brain reacts.
Engaging experiences drive learning
Every lesson combines educator-led discussion with solo learning through interactive simulations that demonstrate contextual examples of the learning.
Students have a safe space to experiment and observe for themselves how probabilistic concepts materialise, and how different outcomes affect them emotionally.
The mini-game feel of these interactive modules engages students fully and mimics the mechanics of the products they would encounter in real life, without the financial or psychological risk.
Working through the simulations gives students lived experience that solidifies learning. Regardless of the learning style of a student, the Almond curriculum will resonate.
Concepts applied across industries and products
The Almond curriculum was created from a recognition that the persuasive mechanics underpinning gambling technology are increasingly present in other digital products that children are exposed to from a young age.
Central to the curriculum is clear demonstration of how mathematical, psychological or product design elements from casinos, sports betting or prediction markets are also present "under the hood" of videogames, financial markets, social media algorithms and more.
Every simulated context allows students to see this in action, prompting reflection on how to recognise these elements in diverse products, and what this means for making informed choices about how to interact with them.