Set your course goal, reflect on how you learn, and design a workflow you can follow. Begin here before Chapter 1.

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.

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.

Notice five things in your surroundings without a screen. Use Luna's screen-free challenge to connect the chapter to everyday life.

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.

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.

Take a values walk and consider a choice you face. Use Luna's screen-free challenge to connect the chapter to everyday life.

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.

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.

Give yourself twenty minutes without digital stimulation. Use Luna's screen-free challenge to connect the chapter to everyday life.

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.

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.

Ask someone older about a technology change they experienced. Use Luna's screen-free challenge to connect the chapter to everyday life.

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.

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.

Play the red-pencil game using paper and a human partner. Use Luna's screen-free challenge to connect the chapter to everyday life.

AI news changes quickly. Put a date on each claim, separate evidence from prediction, and check a news summary against its sources.

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.

Examine a news item on paper. Use Luna's screen-free challenge to connect the chapter to everyday life.

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.

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.

Count something twice using two methods. Use Luna's screen-free challenge to connect the chapter to everyday life.

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.

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.

Play Two Truths and a Lie with people, away from AI. Use Luna's screen-free challenge to connect the chapter to everyday life.

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.

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.

Share a phone-free meal or conversation. Use Luna's screen-free challenge to connect the chapter to everyday life.

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.

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.

Plan tomorrow on paper and tidy one small space. Use Luna's screen-free challenge to connect the chapter to everyday life.

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.

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.

Write an important idea by hand. Use Luna's screen-free challenge to connect the chapter to everyday life.

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.

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.

Follow a set of steps without relying on an AI answer. Use Luna's screen-free challenge to connect the chapter to everyday life.

Learning requires you to retrieve and use what you know. Design a quiz partner that gives feedback without doing the thinking for you.

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.

Walk and recall what you learned without looking it up. Use Luna's screen-free challenge to connect the chapter to everyday life.

Use hints to move forward in math and science while keeping the reasoning yours. Estimate, substitute and recompute before accepting an answer.

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.

Measure something in the physical world. Use Luna's screen-free challenge to connect the chapter to everyday life.

Keep your own voice and meet your teacher's rules. Use comments instead of ghostwriting and check historical claims against actual sources.

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.

Spend twenty minutes with one book. Use Luna's screen-free challenge to connect the chapter to everyday life.

College choices involve facts, deadlines and stories only you can tell. Use AI for organization and practice while checking official requirements yourself.

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.

Talk with someone who has attended college. Use Luna's screen-free challenge to connect the chapter to everyday life.

Which parts of a job still require human judgment? Investigate a career with official evidence, then consider confidentiality and honest AI use at work.

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.

With permission, observe someone working for 30 minutes, or do a chore yourself. Notice the decisions that need a human.

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.

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.

Spend 30 minutes outside without your phone or headphones. Return with one sentence about what you want to protect.