AI Fluency Fundamentals
The six 201 skills, the delegation equation, the Red Pen Review, frontier mapping.
Pre-session prepDone 24 h before; verified at T-15 min
- Tools. Confirm room can reach GenAI.mil (preferred, CAC) and one fallback (CamoGPT, ChatGPT, Gemini). Test on 2–3 student laptops the morning of.
- Tabs open. Deck (Week 1), this pack, GenAI.mil, NAVMC 10274 reference for Module 2 examples.
- Sample data. Two pre-drafted SSgt Smith NAM citations (Outputs A and B) loaded for Module 2; both Red Pen Review documents staged for Module 4.
- Teams. Spotlight presenter, chat on, recording off unless approved. Cameras-on prompt at start.
- Room calibration. Quick poll planned for Slide 2: GenAI.mil / ChatGPT / Gemini / never — calibrates examples for the rest of the deck.
Live hand-off cuesDeck stays primary — no platform switch this week
- Slide 2. Pause, watch laptops light up with their AI tool open. Don’t advance until most are visible.
- Module 2 (Skills 1–2). Read both side-by-side prompts aloud. Show of hands on Output A vs B before you reveal the analysis.
- Module 4 — Red Pen Review. Drop the prepared documents in Teams chat. Set a 10-min silent timer. Mute. Return to deck for the debrief reveal slide.
- Module 5. Each student writes one current task on a notecard / chat line and labels it Centaur or Cyborg. Cold-call three.
- Wrap (Module 6). Issue the homework live; do not let people leave without writing the assignment down.
Exercise & activity promptsRead these to the room verbatim
M2 · Quality Judgment (5 min). “Same AI, same prompt — an end-of-tour NAM for a Staff Sergeant. Both came back instantly. Hands up: which one survives the awards board, A or B? Defend it.” Cold-call one defender per side before revealing why B (specific facts) wins over A (filler adjectives).
M3 · The Delegation Equation (3 min). “Pick one task you owned this week. Write down: who is the audience? what does done look like? what could go wrong? Now decide — would you delegate it to a brand-new Marine? If yes, that’s an AI-shaped task.”
M4 · Red Pen Review (15 min + 10 debrief). “You have ten minutes. Read both AI-drafted documents. Mark up everything you would change before sending it forward. Mute your mic. Go.” In the debrief, surface three categories: fabricated facts, missing context, tone mismatch. The point is the protocol, not the score.
M5 · Workflow mapping (8 min). “Pick one recurring task. Sketch its current steps. Mark each step: only-me, centaur (I design, AI executes), cyborg (continuous back-and-forth), only-AI. Now circle which step you’ll change next week.”
M6 · Frontier-map seed (5 min). “On a sticky note: one task AI does well for you, one task AI fails at for you. We’ll grow this into the full map in Week 4.”
Anchor phrase“You are not learning to use a tool. You are learning to manage one.” Repeat at Slide 8 and again at the wrap.When this goes sidewaysTop failure modes & recovery
- AI tool unreachable for the whole room. Skip the live tool. Red Pen Review documents and the Module 2 outputs are in the deck — run as paper exercises. Don’t cancel.
- Quiet room, no hands at the show-of-hands. Cold-call by name. Quiet rooms are confused rooms; re-state the question more concretely.
- Student insists Output A is better in Module 2. Don’t argue. Ask: “Which sentence in A could you verify with a record? Which in B?” Let the count make the case.
- Running long at the break. Compress M5 to a single cold-call (skip the workflow mapping); protect the M4 Red Pen debrief and the M6 wrap-assignment.
- Student asks “what about classified?” Re-anchor: today is unclassified, no PII. Point to Tools page for full data-handling boundaries.
Post-session homeworkIssue at Slide 51, before the room logs off
- Use it once for real this week. Pick one task from your M5 workflow map. Use AI on it. Bring the result — success or failure — to your section meeting.
- Add to your frontier sticky. Two more entries: one task AI handled well, one it didn’t. We will collect these for the unit map in Week 4.
- Builders & supervisors: read the Course 2 (Builder Orientation) and Course 5 (Supervisor) course pages before next week so you self-select the right track.
- If something blocks you (no tool access, unclear policy), email it to the program lead by EOW — we’ll resolve it before Week 2.