Principles of AI · Unit 3: AI in the World ·  Activity 3.2.2

Talent Stack — Skills That Work Together

Evidence, strands and a stack of your own  ·  Approx. 1 class day

StarringSkill · EvidenceStack · Four StrandsGap · One Step
Unit 3: AI in the World

Quick reference for claims versus evidence, the four strands, how skills stack, how to read a research chart, and how to choose one skill to add.

Talent Stack infographic: a claim says you have a skill and evidence shows a time you used it, with four parts (situation, what I did, what happened, who could confirm it); four strands of skills (Make, Know, Connect, Steer); a stack is a few skills that work together; read a research chart by asking what it shows, who it covers, which years, whether it shows a cause, and whether the headline says more than the chart; and a stack is not a shield

🧭 Plot Summary

Most jobs call for several skills at once, and when a tool takes over the routine part of a task, the other skills matter more to the result. A talent stack is a few skills that work together. Anyone can say they're good at something. Evidence is a time you used the skill, and it's what makes the claim believable.

Your mission is to audit your own skills with evidence, see how skills combine, read a real research chart without reading more into it than it shows, and choose one skill to add. This sets up 3.2.3 and 3.2.4, where you'll look at the tasks inside a real job.

What you'll do in this activity

  • Tell claims from evidence, and turn a claim into a story with four parts.
  • Sort skills into four strands: Make, Know, Connect and Steer.
  • Build a stack of three skills for an invented workplace where a tool does the routine part.
  • Read a real research chart, and judge what it supports and what it doesn't.
  • Meet invented people in computing and other jobs, and see how their stacks differ.
  • Fill in your own Talent Stack Sheet: evidence for four skills, your stack, and one skill to add.

Ground rules

  • Skills come from school, jobs, family, hobbies, sports and community. Evidence from home and work counts.
  • Your Talent Stack Sheet is yours. Share only what you're comfortable sharing. It's graded on how specific your evidence is, not on how impressive your skills sound.
  • Don't write other people's names or private details. If your teacher lets you use a chatbot to check your sentences, paste only those sentences.
  • A stack is not a shield. It can help you prepare, but nobody can promise which skills will protect a job.

Why it matters

When tools change which tasks take time, the people who can say what they can do, with evidence, and who see how their skills fit together, can choose what to learn next instead of guessing.

✅ Self-Check Before You Share

Check off each item as you get there. These aren't grades. They're your own signal.