Lesson Content

Think of AI as a fast helper that can write a first draft, explain a hard idea, sort messy notes, suggest options, and help you review your own work. It is not a magic truth machine. It works from patterns, instructions, and any material you give it.

Professional Use Case: You have a rough paragraph for a course description. AI can turn it into three clearer versions for different audiences, but you still decide which version is honest and useful.

Student task: Ask an AI assistant to sort five everyday tasks into these groups: draft, explain, compare, plan, and review. Use tasks such as writing an email, understanding a bill, comparing two products, planning dinner, or checking a paragraph for confusing wording. Student task help: Use pretend, public, or low-risk practice material. Copying the first AI answer into a text editor means pasting it into a plain text or document editor so you can compare it with your revised answer. A clarification prompt is a short follow-up that tells the AI what to fix, add, remove, or explain. Example clarification prompt: "Make this easier for a beginner, add one concrete example, and show the next three steps as a checklist."

Starter scenario: "Sort these tasks into draft, explain, compare, plan, or review: write an appointment email, explain a medical bill in plain language, compare two laptops, plan a three-day study schedule, and check a refund request for missing details."

Troubleshooting: If the answer feels too broad, ask for a table with one row per task and one reason for each category. If the answer makes claims about prices, laws, health, or policy, verify those claims somewhere trustworthy before acting on them.

Quality Rubric:

• The task is low-risk and does not include private information.
• The AI output is organized enough to review.
• You can explain why each task belongs in its category.