Working with Gen AI · Unit 1 · Lesson 5

Your investigation,
on one page

You pick the question. You run the test.
The claim and the evidence live on the same page.

Lesson 5 of 570 minutes · Unit 1 assessment
Warm-up · 8 minutes

Which one can you check?

Two posters. Both make a claim. Only one lets you verify it.

Ask of each

  • What exactly is the claim?
  • Where is the evidence?
  • Could you check it, right now, from what is on the page?

The difference is usually

One shows the actual output. The other describes the output. A description is not evidence — it is a claim about evidence.

Lesson 5 · Warm-upposter-templates.html · Examples A and B
Choose · 10 minutes

You already ran the test.

Last lesson you gave the same prompt to different models and logged every output. That is your evidence. Today you make it checkable.

Pull out

  • Your exact prompt
  • Two outputs worth putting side by side
  • The keep / change / reject call you made

Thin log?

Add one more run — same prompt, one more model. That is the only new generating today.

Write your question in one sentence. Not "is AI biased" — something your two outputs can actually answer.

Lesson 5 · Step 1Evidence from Lesson 4
Build · 35 minutes · one page

Six zones. All on the page.

1

Question

What you tested, in one sentence.

2

Method

What changed, what was held, how many runs.

3

Evidence

The actual outputs. Screenshots or verbatim — side by side.

4

Claim

The full four-part stem. Fourth clause included.

5

Limits

The fourth clause of your claim, written out — what this does not establish.

6

Authorship

What you decided vs. what the model produced.

Zones 3 and 4 go next to each other. A reader must be able to check the claim against the evidence without turning anything over. If it is not on the page, it was not submitted.

Blank layout and two worked examples: poster-templates.html

Lesson 5 · Part CCanva · Slides · paper — your choice
Gallery walk · 12 minutes

Swap with one partner.

My partner’s claim is…checkablepartly checkablenot checkable
Their limits section is…specificgenericmissing
Strongest thing on their poster…the methodthe evidencehonesty about limits

On your partner's poster

  • Is the claim checkable from what is shown?
  • Are the limits specific, or generic?
  • What is the strongest thing here?
  • One question you would ask this person.

Then, about your own

After seeing your partner's — what is the one thing you would change about yours?

Write it down. This is the part that sticks.

Lesson 5 · Part DTwo reviews each
How this is assessed

Six things

The question is testableSmall, specific, answerable with what you had today
One variableYou changed one thing and can say what you held constant
Evidence is realActual outputs — not described, not retyped from memory
The claim is boundedAll four clauses, and the fourth one is specific
Limits are honestTwo or more, about your test — not about AI in general
Authorship is namedClear what you decided, clear what the model produced

Not on this list: whether your result was interesting. A careful test with a boring result is a complete success. A dramatic finding you cannot support is not.

Lesson 5Submit poster + handout
Submit before you go

Classroom — transfer, attach, turn in

Your poster

Image or PDF.
Lastname-U1D5

Your partner review

Photo of your notes on their poster, and the one thing you would change about yours.
Lastname-U1D5

Thinking: copy your circled answers and your claim into the Classroom response box.  Evidence: attach your poster, plus your partner-review notes.
Open the attachment to check it is readable, then turn in.

Lesson 5 · SubmissionIn class, not homework
What these five days were about

Three machines

ELIZA

Reply rules a person
wrote. Felt like
understanding. Wasn't.

BookBot

Counted continuations
plus one rule for
choosing.

LLMs

Prediction from learned
parameters. Fluent, sometimes
right, and often confident
whether or not it should be.

Fluency is not accuracy — and the meaning you feel in a machine's output is usually the meaning you brought to it.

Unit 1 complete
Next unit

Images

Everything so far has been text.
Next: systems that generate pictures.

The same questions return — in a form you can see.

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