1. Welcome and workflow framing (10 minutes): Review how AI can assist but not replace human judgment in research and writing tasks. 2. Demonstration: brainstorming and narrowing ideas (20 minutes): Instructor models prompts for generating topic ideas, comparing options, and selecting a direction. 3. Guided practice: summarizing information (25 minutes): Learners use AI to summarize a short provided passage or scenario, then identify what must be verified. 4. Demonstration: outline to draft workflow (20 minutes): Instructor shows how to move from purpose and audience to outline, draft, and revision prompts. 5. Hands-on activity: communication task build (30 minutes): Learners create a short AI-assisted outline or draft for a workplace, school, or everyday communication need. 6. Quality check and discussion (10 minutes): Learners review drafts for accuracy, clarity, tone, missing context, and overconfidence. 7. Wrap-up and assignment preview (5 minutes): Connect session practice to the AI Research and Writing Workflow Check.
Requirements
Learners should bring a laptop or tablet with internet access and have access to an approved conversational AI tool. Instructor should provide sample text for summarization, example workplace or everyday writing scenarios, and a simple quality-check checklist covering accuracy, clarity, source awareness, tone, and privacy.
