Extra Exercises

How To Use These

These exercises are designed for instructors who want more practice material, stronger consolidation, or a backup activity when a room moves quickly. Most can run in 10 to 20 minutes with a short plenary.

Use the self-contained learner practice pack for shorter five-minute tasks and prepared inputs. If extending the activities below, state the input, retained output and access fallback before beginning, and count the plenary in the advertised activity time.

Exercise 1: Opportunity or Risk Relocation?

Best fit: Introduction to AI for Research

Give groups three research tasks and ask them to identify:

  • what AI might make faster
  • what checking work would still remain
  • what new risks or responsibilities would appear

Debrief question: Did AI remove work, or mostly move it somewhere less visible?

Exercise 2: Prompt Rewrite Sprint

Best fit: Prompting for Research

Take three vague prompts and ask groups to improve them by adding:

  • clearer task definition
  • source boundaries
  • output format
  • one explicit uncertainty instruction

Debrief question: Which addition improved the prompt most?

Exercise 3: Source Check Triage

Best fit: Prompting for Research

The fictional source and authored AI-style response provide a ready-to-use fallback. Explicitly distinguish an actual model output from a teaching response written to illustrate errors.

Provide a short AI-generated output and ask groups to mark:

  • which claims can be checked quickly
  • which claims need careful source comparison
  • which claims are too vague or unsupported to keep
  • what prompt change might have reduced the problem

Debrief question: Where did the burden of checking become most visible?

Exercise 4: What Should Never Become an Agent?

Best fit: workflow and documentation discussions

Ask groups to compare two candidate workflows and decide:

  • which task is narrow enough for a repeatable workflow
  • which task should remain manual
  • what validation checkpoint is non-negotiable

Debrief question: What makes an automation idea look efficient but still irresponsible?

Exercise 5: AI Use Note in 90 Seconds

Best fit: end-of-course consolidation

Ask learners to write a short AI use note for one example task, including:

  • tool
  • task
  • input material
  • checks performed
  • what was kept

Debrief question: What information was easiest to forget, and why does it matter later?

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