For this assignment you will design a short learning exercise that uses AI to help you learn something you previously struggled to understand.
The topic should come from a class you have taken (or are currently taking). It might be a concept, skill, or type of problem that you never fully understood the first time around.
Instead of simply asking AI to explain the concept, your task is to design a transparent learning process that shows how AI can support real learning and understanding.
In other words, you are not just using AI to produce something. You are designing an assignment for yourself that demonstrates how AI can be used productively as a learning tool.
Many students already use AI tools to complete assignments. But using AI to finish work is not the same as using AI to learn something difficult.
This project asks you to experiment with a different question:
What would it look like to use AI to actually help someone learn?
Your assignment should make that learning process visible.
Someone else will need to follow your instructions and use AI to learn the same concept. We’ll test this out in class!
With your permission, these examples will be posted on the Amaranth AI craft circle webpage, which tries to provide faculty with ways to think about how to incorporate AI into learning processes more generally. Help make UNM a place with the best learners!
You will design a short AI-assisted learning exercise that includes:
Think of the final product as something like a learning guide or instructional walkthrough.
Your topic should be something that was genuinely difficult for you (and maybe continues to be).
Examples might include:
The goal is not to choose something easy. The goal is to explore how AI might help with challenging learning situations.
Your assignment should include clear instructions for how AI will be used.
These instructions should explain:
AI can help with things like:
Your process should be transparent. This means showing:
Learning with AI involves trial and error to learn how to guide it. I give you all the examples and hints I can, but there’s no substitute for going through the process yourself and aligning your AI use to how you learn. Showing that process is part of the assignment.
Finally, include a short (~250 word) summary reflection discussing what you learned about learning with AI.
You might consider questions such as:
The goal of this reflection is to think about how AI can augment the process of learning.
The assignment clearly identifies a specific concept or skill that needed improvement.
The exercise provides clear and structured instructions for how AI should be used. Someone else should be able to follow the activity and attempt the same learning process.
AI is used to support learning rather than simply produce answers. The project demonstrates awareness of both the strengths and limitations of AI tools.
The project shows clear evidence that the concept or skill was better understood by the end of the exercise.Readers should be able to see how the student’s understanding changed.
The project documents how AI was used, including prompts and responses. The learning process should be visible rather than hidden.
The reflection thoughtfully considers what worked, what did not, and what this experiment suggests about learning with AI. The goal is not to produce perfect conclusions, but to think seriously about the process.