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Compare different AI tools on specific tasks to understand their capabilities, limitations, and appropriate use cases.
Points: 1
Grading Criteria
Grading focus will be on: whether the submission demonstrates thoughtful comparison and critical analysis of the AI tools tested; demonstration of fluency in interpreting AI results; understanding of different tools.
Core Competencies
  • Critical Analysis, Fluency, and Evaluation (primary)
  • Technical Understanding
  • Skilling and Productivity

Use AI as a constructive critic to identify potential problems and weaknesses in your work.
Points: 1
Grading Criteria
Grading will focus on: quality of analysis and reflection in your lab submission; depth of critical thinking in analyzing AI feedback; clear articulation of which feedback approaches were most/least effective; thoughtful reflection on the overall experience of using AI as a critic.
Core Competencies
  • Critical Analysis, Fluency, and Evaluation (primary)
  • Skilling and Productivity

Practice iterative refinement using AI by progressively transforming content through specific lenses or directions.
Points: 1
Grading Criteria
Grading will focus on: demonstrated understanding of iterative refinement techniques; creative application of different transformation approaches; thoughtful analysis of how the content evolved through iterations.
Core Competencies
  • Skilling and Productivity (primary)
  • Art and Creativity
  • Critical Analysis

Use Google AI Studio's compare mode to see how prompt phrasing, temperature, and thinking level change a model's output on the same question.
Points: 1
Grading Criteria
Grading will focus on: evidence that you actually ran the comparisons and didn't just summarize the settings; the quality of your observations about how output changed; practical insight in the field-guide reflection.
Core Competencies
  • Technical Understanding (primary)
  • Critical Analysis, Fluency, and Evaluation
  • Skilling and Productivity

Use AI to assist in learning a new skill or exploring a new hobby while documenting the learning process.
Points: 2
Grading Criteria
Grading will focus on: an interesting learning-based use case that benefits from the strategy; demonstration of thoughtful process in exploring new skills; clear documentation of AI's role in supporting the learning journey
Core Competencies
  • Art and Creativity (primary)
  • Skilling and Productivity
  • Technical Understanding

Design a self-contained interactive experience that lives entirely within a single AI prompt.
Points: 2
Grading Criteria
Grading will focus on the effectiveness and creativity of your interactive experience design. Does it maintain interest and flow well? How well does it handle different inputs and edge cases? How creative or useful is the concept and execution? How clear and detailed is your prompt.
Core Competencies
  • Art and Creativity (primary)
  • Skilling and Productivity

Design and refine prompts for AI systems to classify data, iteratively testing against validation datasets to improve classification accuracy.
Points: 2
Grading Criteria
For grading, your prompt will be run against a hidden test dataset and compared to some bad, okay, and good prompts that I will write. A good grade will perform similarly to my good prompts, or better.
Core Competencies
  • Technical Understanding (primary)
  • Critical Analysis, Fluency, and Evaluation
  • Skilling and Productivity

Give an AI coding agent a real LIS task, watch it plan and loop, then reflect on where it needed supervision — and where you'd trust it to run alone.
Points: 2
Grading Criteria
Grading focuses on the reflection — depth of observation about how the agent worked (plan, loop moment, failure, trust question), not the polish of the final artifact. A messy result with a sharp reflection scores higher than a polished output with a thin one.
Core Competencies
  • Skilling and Productivity (primary)
  • Critical Analysis, Fluency, and Evaluation
  • Technical Understanding

Explore and analyze bias in language models through counterfactual prompting, role reversal, and synthetic data generation exercises.
Points: 2
Grading Criteria
Grading will focus on the clarity of documentation, quality of analysis, and demonstrated understanding of bias detection methodologies
Core Competencies
  • Society, Ethics and Policy (primary)
  • Critical Analysis, Fluency, and Evaluation

Develop guidelines for AI use in a specific organizational context, addressing ethical considerations and practical implementation.
Points: 1
Grading Criteria
Grading will focus on the clarity and appropriateness of your ideas and approach; the practical applicability of recommendation; and the evidence of understanding relevant AI principles
Core Competencies
  • Society, Ethics and Policy (primary)
  • Critical Analysis, Fluency, and Evaluation
  • Technical Understanding

Create AI-generated images and provide curator statements for others' work in a virtual gallery setting.
Points: 1
Grading Criteria
Grading will focus on creativity in the prompting process, sophistication of generated images (avoiding generic/cliched outputs), and thoughtful iteration based on results.
Core Competencies
  • Art and Creativity (primary)

A comprehensive quiz covering the full range of course concepts, designed to demonstrate mastery of AI literacy fundamentals.
Points: 1
Grading Criteria
The grade on this component of your portfolio will simply be your grade on the quiz.
Core Competencies
  • Critical Analysis, Fluency, and Evaluation (primary)
  • Technical Understanding
  • Society, Ethics and Policy

Competency Coverage

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