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.

Exercise 1: Opportunity or Risk Relocation?

Best fit: How AI Impacts 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: How to Use AI in 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: How to Use AI in Research

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?