Understanding AI: common terms, everyday examples, and learner goals
0:00-0:10 Welcome, course overview, and participant introductions. 0:10-0:25 Group discussion: Where have you already encountered AI? 0:25-0:45 Plain-language mini-lesson on AI, machine learning, generative AI, chatbots, algorithms, models, prompts, and outputs. 0:45-1:05 Everyday examples activity: learners sort tools and scenarios into AI, automation, and non-AI categories. 1:05-1:15 Break. 1:15-1:35 Instructor demonstration of common AI-enabled features in search, writing tools, maps, shopping, media, and workplace software. 1:35-1:50 Pair activity: identify one everyday, educational, or workplace task where AI could help and one concern or limitation. 1:50-2:00 Wrap-up, key vocabulary review, preview of the AI Basics and Everyday Examples Check, and preparation for the next meeting on how generative AI works.
Requirements
Instructor should provide slides or handouts with beginner-friendly definitions, an everyday AI examples worksheet, internet-enabled demonstration device, projector or display, and access to at least one conversational AI tool for demonstration. Learners need basic computer or mobile device familiarity; account creation should not be required during this first meeting.