The Human Question
AI for Questioning Minds — Free Course
Use AI with purpose. Question its answers. Keep your own voice. Start with Chapter 01 and build your Human Agency Plan, one lesson at a time.
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01.1 The Question: The Human Question
Start with the question behind the whole course: when AI can produce an answer, what remains yours to do? Meet the three habits you will practice: Think First, Verify, and Stay in Charge.
Start with the question behind the whole course: when AI can produce an answer, what remains yours to do? Meet the three habits you will practice: Think First, Verify, and Stay in Charge.
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01.2 Carla's Walkthrough: Who Decided?
Identify who made each decision in an AI-assisted task. Follow Carla's demonstration, pause to make your own attempt, and compare your check with the result.
Identify who made each decision in an AI-assisted task. Follow Carla's demonstration, pause to make your own attempt, and compare your check with the result.
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01.3 Luna's Unplugged: Notice Five Things
Notice five things in your surroundings without a screen. Use Luna's screen-free challenge to connect the chapter to everyday life.
Notice five things in your surroundings without a screen. Use Luna's screen-free challenge to connect the chapter to everyday life.
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02.1 The Question: Your Moral Compass
An answer can sound convincing and still lead you away from what matters to you. Name your values, examine a difficult choice, and decide which decisions you will keep human.
An answer can sound convincing and still lead you away from what matters to you. Name your values, examine a difficult choice, and decide which decisions you will keep human.
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02.2 Carla's Walkthrough: The Steering Check
Check whether an AI suggestion steers you away from your values. Follow Carla's demonstration, pause to make your own attempt, and compare your check with the result.
Check whether an AI suggestion steers you away from your values. Follow Carla's demonstration, pause to make your own attempt, and compare your check with the result.
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02.3 Luna's Unplugged: The Values Walk
Take a values walk and consider a choice you face. Use Luna's screen-free challenge to connect the chapter to everyday life.
Take a values walk and consider a choice you face. Use Luna's screen-free challenge to connect the chapter to everyday life.
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03.1 The Question: Think First
Give your own ideas a chance before asking a machine. Practice creating an initial response, using AI to challenge it, and making the final work your own.
Give your own ideas a chance before asking a machine. Practice creating an initial response, using AI to challenge it, and making the final work your own.
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03.2 Carla's Walkthrough: Challenge, Don't Replace
Ask for a challenge to your own first idea instead of a replacement. Follow Carla's demonstration, pause to make your own attempt, and compare your check with the result.
Ask for a challenge to your own first idea instead of a replacement. Follow Carla's demonstration, pause to make your own attempt, and compare your check with the result.
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03.3 Luna's Unplugged: Twenty Bored Minutes
Give yourself twenty minutes without digital stimulation. Use Luna's screen-free challenge to connect the chapter to everyday life.
Give yourself twenty minutes without digital stimulation. Use Luna's screen-free challenge to connect the chapter to everyday life.
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04.1 The Question: From Turing to Today
Today's AI has a history of ambitious claims, progress and setbacks. Build a checked timeline and use it to ask better questions about the next big promise.
Today's AI has a history of ambitious claims, progress and setbacks. Build a checked timeline and use it to ask better questions about the next big promise.
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04.2 Carla's Walkthrough: The Five-Fact Audit
Verify five claims rather than trusting a smooth AI summary. Follow Carla's demonstration, pause to make your own attempt, and compare your check with the result.
Verify five claims rather than trusting a smooth AI summary. Follow Carla's demonstration, pause to make your own attempt, and compare your check with the result.
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04.3 Luna's Unplugged: Ask Someone Older
Ask someone older about a technology change they experienced. Use Luna's screen-free challenge to connect the chapter to everyday life.
Ask someone older about a technology change they experienced. Use Luna's screen-free challenge to connect the chapter to everyday life.
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05.1 The Question: How AI Actually Works
A vague request leaves room for a wrong answer. Explore how language models work, add useful context, and learn why a fluent response still needs checking.
A vague request leaves room for a wrong answer. Explore how language models work, add useful context, and learn why a fluent response still needs checking.
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05.2 Carla's Walkthrough: Three Levels of Context
Compare three requests with increasing levels of useful context. Follow Carla's demonstration, pause to make your own attempt, and compare your check with the result.
Compare three requests with increasing levels of useful context. Follow Carla's demonstration, pause to make your own attempt, and compare your check with the result.
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05.3 Luna's Unplugged: The Red Pencil Game at Home
Play the red-pencil game using paper and a human partner. Use Luna's screen-free challenge to connect the chapter to everyday life.
Play the red-pencil game using paper and a human partner. Use Luna's screen-free challenge to connect the chapter to everyday life.
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06.1 The Question: AI in the News
AI news changes quickly. Put a date on each claim, separate evidence from prediction, and check a news summary against its sources.
AI news changes quickly. Put a date on each claim, separate evidence from prediction, and check a news summary against its sources.
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06.2 Carla's Walkthrough: Audit an AI News Summary
Audit an AI-generated news summary against independent sources. Follow Carla's demonstration, pause to make your own attempt, and compare your check with the result.
Audit an AI-generated news summary against independent sources. Follow Carla's demonstration, pause to make your own attempt, and compare your check with the result.
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06.3 Luna's Unplugged: Paper News
Examine a news item on paper. Use Luna's screen-free challenge to connect the chapter to everyday life.
Examine a news item on paper. Use Luna's screen-free challenge to connect the chapter to everyday life.
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07.1 The Question: Trust, but Verify
Borrow a habit from auditing: ask where the evidence came from. Test a simple calculation and decide whether a source is relevant, reliable and sufficient.
Borrow a habit from auditing: ask where the evidence came from. Test a simple calculation and decide whether a source is relevant, reliable and sufficient.
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07.2 Carla's Walkthrough: The Car Wash Check
Check the car-wash example step by step. Follow Carla's demonstration, pause to make your own attempt, and compare your check with the result.
Check the car-wash example step by step. Follow Carla's demonstration, pause to make your own attempt, and compare your check with the result.
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07.3 Luna's Unplugged: Count It Twice
Count something twice using two methods. Use Luna's screen-free challenge to connect the chapter to everyday life.
Count something twice using two methods. Use Luna's screen-free challenge to connect the chapter to everyday life.
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08.1 The Question: Audit Your AI
AI can invent details, repeat bias or agree too readily. Build an audit log that shows the claim, your check and what you decided after checking.
AI can invent details, repeat bias or agree too readily. Build an audit log that shows the claim, your check and what you decided after checking.
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08.2 Carla's Walkthrough: Running a Hallucination Hunt
Run a hallucination hunt instead of accepting plausible details. Follow Carla's demonstration, pause to make your own attempt, and compare your check with the result.
Run a hallucination hunt instead of accepting plausible details. Follow Carla's demonstration, pause to make your own attempt, and compare your check with the result.
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08.3 Luna's Unplugged: Two Truths and a Lie
Play Two Truths and a Lie with people, away from AI. Use Luna's screen-free challenge to connect the chapter to everyday life.
Play Two Truths and a Lie with people, away from AI. Use Luna's screen-free challenge to connect the chapter to everyday life.
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09.1 The Question: Privacy, Safety, and Respect
Useful help should not require giving away private information. Create your Never Paste list, examine consent and practice keeping people central to your support network.
Useful help should not require giving away private information. Create your Never Paste list, examine consent and practice keeping people central to your support network.
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09.2 Carla's Walkthrough: The Privacy Policy Tour
Examine what a service says about the information you provide. Follow Carla's demonstration, pause to make your own attempt, and compare your check with the result.
Examine what a service says about the information you provide. Follow Carla's demonstration, pause to make your own attempt, and compare your check with the result.
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09.3 Luna's Unplugged: The Phone-Free Meal
Share a phone-free meal or conversation. Use Luna's screen-free challenge to connect the chapter to everyday life.
Share a phone-free meal or conversation. Use Luna's screen-free challenge to connect the chapter to everyday life.
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10.1 The Question: Get Organized
Turn a busy week into a set of manageable workflows. Organize one class, identify your decision points and choose how to use any time you get back.
Turn a busy week into a set of manageable workflows. Organize one class, identify your decision points and choose how to use any time you get back.
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10.2 Carla's Walkthrough: One Class, One Project
Set up a workflow and organized workspace for one class. Follow Carla's demonstration, pause to make your own attempt, and compare your check with the result.
Set up a workflow and organized workspace for one class. Follow Carla's demonstration, pause to make your own attempt, and compare your check with the result.
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10.3 Luna's Unplugged: Plan Tomorrow, Tidy One Space
Plan tomorrow on paper and tidy one small space. Use Luna's screen-free challenge to connect the chapter to everyday life.
Plan tomorrow on paper and tidy one small space. Use Luna's screen-free challenge to connect the chapter to everyday life.
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11.1 The Question: Context Files
Context helps only when it is useful and safe to share. Write a clear Markdown context file, add rules for your AI and keep sensitive details out.
Context helps only when it is useful and safe to share. Write a clear Markdown context file, add rules for your AI and keep sensitive details out.
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11.2 Carla's Walkthrough: Let the AI Interview You
Use a structured interview to build a useful context file. Follow Carla's demonstration, pause to make your own attempt, and compare your check with the result.
Use a structured interview to build a useful context file. Follow Carla's demonstration, pause to make your own attempt, and compare your check with the result.
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11.3 Luna's Unplugged: Write It by Hand
Write an important idea by hand. Use Luna's screen-free challenge to connect the chapter to everyday life.
Write an important idea by hand. Use Luna's screen-free challenge to connect the chapter to everyday life.
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12.1 The Question: Dr. Q's Five Steps
A better prompt states a purpose and a check. Use Role, Objective, Context, Task and Audit to turn a vague request into a sequence you can verify.
A better prompt states a purpose and a check. Use Role, Objective, Context, Task and Audit to turn a vague request into a sequence you can verify.
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12.2 Carla's Walkthrough: The Robotics Club Budget
Apply the Five Steps to the robotics-club budget example. Follow Carla's demonstration, pause to make your own attempt, and compare your check with the result.
Apply the Five Steps to the robotics-club budget example. Follow Carla's demonstration, pause to make your own attempt, and compare your check with the result.
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12.3 Luna's Unplugged: Follow the Steps
Follow a set of steps without relying on an AI answer. Use Luna's screen-free challenge to connect the chapter to everyday life.
Follow a set of steps without relying on an AI answer. Use Luna's screen-free challenge to connect the chapter to everyday life.
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13.1 The Question: Your AI Quiz Master
Learning requires you to retrieve and use what you know. Design a quiz partner that gives feedback without doing the thinking for you.
Learning requires you to retrieve and use what you know. Design a quiz partner that gives feedback without doing the thinking for you.
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13.2 Carla's Walkthrough: Build a Quiz Master
Build a quiz master that asks you to recall before it explains. Follow Carla's demonstration, pause to make your own attempt, and compare your check with the result.
Build a quiz master that asks you to recall before it explains. Follow Carla's demonstration, pause to make your own attempt, and compare your check with the result.
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13.3 Luna's Unplugged: Walk and Recall
Walk and recall what you learned without looking it up. Use Luna's screen-free challenge to connect the chapter to everyday life.
Walk and recall what you learned without looking it up. Use Luna's screen-free challenge to connect the chapter to everyday life.
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14.1 The Question: Math and Science With AI
Use hints to move forward in math and science while keeping the reasoning yours. Estimate, substitute and recompute before accepting an answer.
Use hints to move forward in math and science while keeping the reasoning yours. Estimate, substitute and recompute before accepting an answer.
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14.2 Carla's Walkthrough: The Hint Ladder
Use a hint ladder and check the solution yourself. Follow Carla's demonstration, pause to make your own attempt, and compare your check with the result.
Use a hint ladder and check the solution yourself. Follow Carla's demonstration, pause to make your own attempt, and compare your check with the result.
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14.3 Luna's Unplugged: Measure Something Real
Measure something in the physical world. Use Luna's screen-free challenge to connect the chapter to everyday life.
Measure something in the physical world. Use Luna's screen-free challenge to connect the chapter to everyday life.
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15.1 The Question: English, History, and More
Keep your own voice and meet your teacher's rules. Use comments instead of ghostwriting and check historical claims against actual sources.
Keep your own voice and meet your teacher's rules. Use comments instead of ghostwriting and check historical claims against actual sources.
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15.2 Carla's Walkthrough: Comments Only and a Source Check
Ask for comments on writing and verify a source claim. Follow Carla's demonstration, pause to make your own attempt, and compare your check with the result.
Ask for comments on writing and verify a source claim. Follow Carla's demonstration, pause to make your own attempt, and compare your check with the result.
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15.3 Luna's Unplugged: Twenty Minutes, One Book
Spend twenty minutes with one book. Use Luna's screen-free challenge to connect the chapter to everyday life.
Spend twenty minutes with one book. Use Luna's screen-free challenge to connect the chapter to everyday life.
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16.1 The Question: AI and College
College choices involve facts, deadlines and stories only you can tell. Use AI for organization and practice while checking official requirements yourself.
College choices involve facts, deadlines and stories only you can tell. Use AI for organization and practice while checking official requirements yourself.
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16.2 Carla's Walkthrough: Tracker and Mock Interview
Build a college tracker and practice an interview. Follow Carla's demonstration, pause to make your own attempt, and compare your check with the result.
Build a college tracker and practice an interview. Follow Carla's demonstration, pause to make your own attempt, and compare your check with the result.
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16.3 Luna's Unplugged: Ask Someone Who Went
Talk with someone who has attended college. Use Luna's screen-free challenge to connect the chapter to everyday life.
Talk with someone who has attended college. Use Luna's screen-free challenge to connect the chapter to everyday life.
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17.1 The Question: AI and Work
Which parts of a job still require human judgment? Investigate a career with official evidence, then consider confidentiality and honest AI use at work.
Which parts of a job still require human judgment? Investigate a career with official evidence, then consider confidentiality and honest AI use at work.
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17.2 Carla's Walkthrough: Explore a Career, Then Check It
Explore a career, then check the facts at official sources. Follow Carla's demonstration, pause to make your own attempt, and compare your check with the result.
Explore a career, then check the facts at official sources. Follow Carla's demonstration, pause to make your own attempt, and compare your check with the result.
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17.3 Luna's Unplugged: Watch Work Happen
With permission, observe someone working for 30 minutes, or do a chore yourself. Notice the decisions that need a human.
With permission, observe someone working for 30 minutes, or do a chore yourself. Notice the decisions that need a human.
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18.1 The Question: The Future of Learning
Bring the course together in a Human Agency Plan. Explain your rules, show evidence from your portfolio and decide when you will review your plan again.
Bring the course together in a Human Agency Plan. Explain your rules, show evidence from your portfolio and decide when you will review your plan again.
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18.2 Carla's Walkthrough: Red Team Your Plan
Ask AI to find weak spots in your Human Agency Plan. Check its claims and decide what to keep, revise, or reject in your own words.
Ask AI to find weak spots in your Human Agency Plan. Check its claims and decide what to keep, revise, or reject in your own words.
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18.3 Luna's Unplugged: Outside, No Phone
Spend 30 minutes outside without your phone or headphones. Return with one sentence about what you want to protect.
Spend 30 minutes outside without your phone or headphones. Return with one sentence about what you want to protect.
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