Student Worksheet

How to understand what AI does well
and know what it gets wrong

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🎯   Today's goal:   Given 10 scenarios, accurately sort them into what AI does well vs. poorly, hitting at least 8 out of 10 on the exit ticket.
Phase 1, Hook

What did you just watch?

5 min

After watching the Husk.IRL clip, answer these quickly.

1. What did the AI try to do in the clip?
2. Where did it go wrong? Be specific.
3. Were you surprised? Why or why not?

Phase 2, Activity 1

The Sort, Record your group's decisions

10 min

Write the card number in the correct column as your group places each one. For any card your group debated, circle its number.

✅ AI Does This Well, Card #s ❌ AI Struggles Here, Card #s
The card that caused the most debate in our group
Card #
Why it was hard to agree on

Phase 3, Activity 2

Catch the Mistake, What did your group find?

8 min
Your group's report topic
1. What specific thing did your group find that seemed wrong or suspicious?
2. Why do you think AI got that wrong? (circle one and explain)
The event was too recent Not enough data on this topic AI made it up confidently Other
3. Would you trust this report if you were writing a paper? Why or why not?

Phase 4, Mini-Lecture

Notes, AI Strengths, Weaknesses, and Why

8 min
✅ AI excels at...
❌ AI struggles with...
The core reason, complete this sentence

AI doesn't actually things. Instead, it based on patterns in text it was trained on. That's why it sounds confident even when it's .


Phase 5, Tournament

Build your prompt. Track the rounds.

15 min
Your pair's prompt, designed to stump AI
Tip: target a real limitation, not just a trick or nonsense. What does AI genuinely not know or can't do?
Round tracker, note what happened each round
2v2, Did your prompt advance?
Winning prompt (if not yours):
4v4, What won this round?
Why did the group pick it?
Class champion prompt
AI limitation it targets:

Phase 6, Socratic

The tournament as a mirror for AI

7 min
1. Was the tournament a fair way to pick the best prompt? What would have been fairer?
The parallel, how your tournament and AI are similar

🏆 Your tournament

🤖 How AI picks

2. When AI recommends a product or gives you an answer, whose "voice" is it actually reflecting?

Phase 7, Live Demo

What happened when we entered the winning prompt?

5 min
1. Did the AI respond the way the class expected? Describe what happened.
2. Does this change how you'd use AI for this kind of task? Why or why not?

Synthesis

Closing thought, before the exit ticket

In your own words
AI is a powerful thinking partner, not a thinking replacement. Based on today, what does that actually mean to you? Give one concrete example of when you'd use AI and one when you wouldn't.