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Human + AI: Research & Insight with AI Direction
Make AI your research partner: scope sharp questions, summarize across sources, and verify every key claim before you trust it.
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Course Overview Video
The Scenario
A nonprofit director needs a briefing on youth employment trends by Friday. AI delivers a slick report — with two fabricated statistics buried inside.
Learning Objectives
- Scope sharp research questions
- Use AI to summarize and compare multiple sources
- Evaluate source credibility and spot bias
- Synthesize findings into original insights
- Verify every key claim before trusting it
Module Sequence
- Scoping: ask the sharp question
- AI as research partner
- Summarizing across sources
- Evaluating sources and bias
- Synthesis: your insight, not the AI’s
- Verification habits
Assessment
Verify a five-claim AI research brief: cite real sources, flag the two false claims, write the corrected briefing.
The Human + AI Framework
AI gathers, human verifies, human concludes. No AI claim reaches the briefing without a human-checked source.
Direct it. Check it. Question it. Decide.
National Standards Alignment
| Framework | Alignment |
|---|---|
| Career Cluster | Information Technology (National Career Clusters Framework, Advance CTE) |
| Career Ready Practices | CRP-7 Employ valid and reliable research strategies — the core of the course; CRP-8 Utilize critical thinking — question AI-generated insights; CRP-9 Model integrity and ethical leadership — cite honestly, direct rigorously |
| AI4K12 Big Ideas | Representation & Reasoning — research syntheses as models of the evidence; Societal Impact — acting on AI-assisted research responsibly |
National framework names verified September 25, 2026 against the Advance CTE National Career Clusters Framework, the Common Career Technical Core Career Ready Practices, and the AI4K12 Five Big Ideas (AAAI/CSTA). No codes were invented.