AI, Set, Go
Practical AI for Work, Life, and Everything In Between
Why this course matters
AI becomes useful in ordinary moments: choosing between two flights, planning a road trip, researching a purchase, rewriting a difficult email, fixing an image, or remembering to check a price next week.
The hard part is not finding a tool. It is knowing how to frame the need, give useful context, review the answer, and act on it.
This course uses practical cases from work and daily life so students build judgment, repeatable habits, and a personal AI playbook they will actually use.
Every useful result follows the same human-led pattern: define the need, ask clearly, check the answer, and decide what happens next. AI can accelerate the work, but the user remains responsible for accuracy, privacy, and action.
What you will be able to do
- Turn a vague need into a clear question, useful context, and a practical request.
- Research a topic across multiple sources and separate evidence from confident-sounding output.
- Compare products, services, routes, schedules, and prices using criteria that matter to you.
- Plan a trip or everyday project with timing, budget, constraints, and backup options.
- Draft, revise, summarize, and adapt everyday communications and presentations.
- Create or edit images while respecting consent, copyright, privacy, and accurate representation.
- Create a recurring reminder, monitoring request, or scheduled information task when supported by the chosen platform.
- Build a personal library of reusable instructions, review habits, and practical AI use cases.
Seven weeks, session by session
Each weekly topic is taught across two connected one-hour meetings — 14 live online sessions and 14 instructional hours in total. Every meeting combines a short demonstration, guided practice, and one concrete result you keep.
Ask Better Questions
Turn a vague need into a clear request with context, constraints, and a useful output format.
Result Personal question-building templateResearch Without Getting Lost
Find, compare, summarize, and verify information without confusing fluency with truth.
Result Source-checked research briefPlan the Real World
Build a road trip, itinerary, event plan, budget, packing list, or everyday project plan.
Result Practical plan with options and constraintsBuy Smarter and Time It Right
Compare products, flights, hotels, routes, and timing. Create a price-watch or check-in plan.
Result Decision table and price-watch planWrite It. Say It. Show It.
Draft, revise, summarize, translate, and turn information into a clear presentation.
Result Finished communication or presentationMake and Fix Visuals
Generate, edit, clean up, resize, restyle, or restore images with responsible review.
Result Original or edited visual assetPut AI to Work for You
Create a recurring task, reminder, briefing, or monitoring request and assemble a personal playbook.
Result Personal AI playbook and recurring taskThe practice plan
Two classes build each weekly topic. Students adapt every exercise to their own career, business, community project, or creative interest.
Ask for What You Actually Need
Turn a fuzzy question into a clear request with context, constraints, and a useful format.
Question clinic
Rewrite three weak requests and compare the results side by side.
Keep the Conversation Going
Use follow-up questions, examples, and corrections to get a more useful answer.
Research Without Getting Lost
Build a short research brief using multiple sources.
Trust, but Check
Verify claims, dates, quotations, links, and missing context.
Myth check
Investigate one confident AI answer that turns out to be incomplete or wrong.
Plan the Real World
Create a road trip, itinerary, event plan, or household project with real constraints.
Plan B Is Part of the Plan
Add timing, budget, accessibility needs, weather, delays, and backup options.
Buy Smarter
Compare products or services using criteria that matter, not a generic top-ten list.
Watch the Price, Not the Screen
Create a flight, hotel, or product price-watch and check-in plan.
Write It Better
Draft and revise an email, letter, résumé section, proposal, or difficult message.
Show, Don't Ramble
Turn research or notes into a concise presentation with a clear story.
Tone lab
Rewrite the same message for three different audiences without losing meaning.
Make the Image
Create an original visual from a clear art direction.
Fix the Image
Remove distractions, replace a background, restore a photo, resize, or adapt an existing image.
Put It on Repeat
Create a recurring reminder, briefing, monitoring request, or scheduled task when supported.
Build Your Personal AI Playbook
Organize reusable instructions, favorite use cases, privacy rules, and review habits.
Everyday AI showcase
Demonstrate one use case that saved time or produced a better decision.
Critical thinking skills
- Identify the real decision or task before asking AI for an answer.
- Ask follow-up questions that expose assumptions, missing information, and uncertainty.
- Compare recommendations using personal constraints rather than accepting a generic ranking.
- Recognize fabricated information, stale data, biased framing, sponsored influence, and false confidence.
- Decide what information is safe to share and what must remain private.
- Know when AI can assist and when a human expert or authoritative source is required.
How progress is evaluated
This is a not-for-credit course. Learning is evaluated through completion, demonstration, and instructor review of practical work rather than tests or grades. Evidence of learning includes:
- A clearly framed everyday question with relevant context and constraints.
- A short research brief with sources, uncertainties, and conclusions.
- A comparison table or travel plan based on defined criteria.
- A revised email, document, presentation, or other practical communication.
- An original or edited image with a record of the requested changes.
- A recurring task, alert plan, or monitoring request supported by the selected platform.
What you need
No textbook is required. Instructor-created question patterns, research guides, comparison templates, travel-planning worksheets, communication exercises, image-editing briefs, privacy checklists, and personal-playbook templates are provided digitally.
Students need a laptop or tablet and internet access for the live online sessions.
A paid AI platform is preferred for better results, higher usage limits, and broader access to image and scheduling features. Free accounts may be used with possible feature limitations.
Responsible everyday AI principles
Think before asking
Define the real task, decision, audience, and constraints before requesting an answer.
Protect before sharing
Personal, client, credential, financial, health, location, and proprietary information should not be entered into public AI systems.
Check before acting
Verify sources, dates, prices, calculations, availability, permissions, and high-impact recommendations.
Human accountability
AI can assist with research and execution, but you remain responsible for decisions and consequences.