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Unit 2 Working With AI

Prompt it, check it, time it, and test the tools side by side. You'll measure when AI really makes you faster and when it only feels that way. Ends with a Tool Decision Memo for a real brief.

🕐 ~3.5 weeks🅰️ 6 Activities🅿️ 2 Projects📅 17 class periods
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The Path Through Unit 2

A local print shop owner just paid for an AI tool a salesperson swore would "run the front office." Now she wants to know what it should and shouldn't touch. Read the full case →
AActivity5 days total
2-1-1Context & Verification — Prompts That Work, Answers You Can Check
2 days→
2-1-2By Hand, Then With AI — Measuring What Changes
2 days→
2-1-3School AI Policy — Reading and Writing the Rules
1 day→
PProject🕐 4 class days

2-1-4  Productivity Study

Pick three real tasks from your own life, such as homework, a club, or a job. Do each one by hand and again with AI, and measure time, quality, and the cost of checking. Then decide where AI helps and where it doesn't.

Turn in: Memo with your numbers and a "helps / doesn't help" verdict for each taskOpen →
AActivity5 days total
2-2-1Creative Stations — One Brief, Three Tools
2 days→
2-2-2Whose Style Is It? — Copyright, Consent & Credit
1 day→
2-2-3AI That Acts — Agents, Permissions & Guardrails
2 days→
PProject🕐 3 class days

2-2-4  Tool Decision Memo

Take a real brief, such as promoting a school event. Choose which tools to use, which parts a human must own, and how you'll check the work. Then defend the split.

Turn in: Decision memo: tool choices, human/AI split, and a checking planOpen →