Block 5: Source Dossier Work Day 2: AI Source + Documentation
Show two AI Documentation Templates from last year (anonymized) side by side. One is the strong example (specific tools, specific prompts, named failure); one is the weak example ("The AI helped me. It was sometimes wrong.").
Task: Without looking at the rubric, which is stronger and why? What specific evidence in the strong one is missing from the weak one?
Answer in your Field Notebook, dated.
I can OPVL an AI source on my dossier topic AND complete the AI Documentation Template, including the "one thing the AI got wrong" field with specificity.
I can find sources, judge them with OPVL, and communicate what I learned honestly.
"Obtaining, Evaluating, and Communicating Information"
Where this runs:
- U0 B1: Welcome + How We Work
- U0 B2: OPVL Across Source Types
- U0 B3: AI as a Source + Documentation Protocol
- U0 B4: Source Dossier Launch + Choosing Your Topic
- U0 B5: Source Dossier Work Day 2: AI Source + Documentation ← you are here
- U2 B9: Landscape Readings Submitted + Class Share-out
Assessed:
Source Dossier (all strands) + every OPVL component after it
On track looks like:
Your Limitations are specific to the source in front of you, never 'it might be biased.'
I can check an AI's answer against real sources and decide: use it, fix it, or bin it.
In brief: "Evaluate whether an AI output should be accepted, revised, or rejected (paraphrased; full framework at ailiteracyframework.org)"
Where this runs:
- U0 B1: Welcome + How We Work
- U0 B2: OPVL Across Source Types
- U0 B3: AI as a Source + Documentation Protocol
- U0 B4: Source Dossier Launch + Choosing Your Topic
- U0 B5: Source Dossier Work Day 2: AI Source + Documentation ← you are here
- U1 B1: Phenomenon Launch: What Makes a Planet Habitable?
- U1 B3: Mars as Calibration: What Does Earth Have That Mars Doesn't?
- U1 B5: Exoplanet Detection: Transits and What They Tell Us
- U1 B6: Reading Exoplanet Data Cards: Choosing Your Planet
- U1 B7: Habitability Framework: Building the Comparison
- U2 B3: Rivers as Landscape Sculptors
- U2 B6: Field Photo / Map Analysis Work Day
- U2 B7: Reading the Landscape: Worked Example + OPVL
- U4 B5: IPCC AR6 Deep Dive + Chennai Climate Brief Assigned
- U4 B6: Climate Models: How They Work, How They're Wrong, How to Read Them
Assessed:
Every AI Documentation Template: the 'one thing the AI got wrong' field
On track looks like:
You catch specific errors ('it said 2024; the report says 2023'), and you've stopped writing 'AI can hallucinate.'
I choose when to use AI and when to think it through myself, and I can defend either choice.
In brief: "Decide whether AI is the right tool for a task before using it (paraphrased)"
Where this runs:
- U0 B3: AI as a Source + Documentation Protocol
- U0 B5: Source Dossier Work Day 2: AI Source + Documentation ← you are here
- U0 B7: Defenses + Unit Close
- U1 B8: Goldilocks Report Drafting: Substantive Writing Block
- U1 B10: NASA Committee Q&A + Unit Reflection
- U2 B8: Landscape Reading Drafting + Peer Feedback
- U4 B10: Climate Brief Work Day + Worked-Example Brief + Peer Feedback
- U4 B11: Climate Brief Final Drafting + Panel Rehearsal
Assessed:
AI-use log across the year; the defended not-using-AI reflection
On track looks like:
You can name a step where you chose NOT to use AI, and your reason survives a 'why?'
What today is about
Today the AI source gets the same treatment as the human sources, and gets its own Documentation Template.
We start with the two traditional OPVLs you brought in. Have them out. If your second source dead-ended, we want the search you tried and where it stopped, because that is a research problem worth ten minutes of the room's attention and you are almost certainly not the only one.
Then the third source. You've OPVL'd traditional sources; today you do the same to an AI tool used on your dossier topic, AND you complete your first AI Documentation Template entry on it. You have done this once already, on Lovelock in Block 3, so today is the same move on your own question. The Documentation Template isn't a separate assignment; it's how you show your AI use honestly, and a complete template protects you.
The block ends with a cross-source synthesis: where do your sources agree, where do they disagree, and what does the disagreement tell you about the topic? That synthesis is the spine of the Dossier: not a list of three OPVLs, an argument built on them.
Before you start the work
Start with the Watch: the AI Documentation Template filled in live and projected. The Reads are your references, and the Interact is a paired warm-up on a printed handout.
Today's work: choose one path
All four paths end with one completed AI Documentation Template + one AI-source OPVL. The path you pick is about how you want to use AI on your topic.
Open your Class Notebook and type today's entry header as Heading 2:
A: Aug 20 | U0 B5 | Source Dossier: AI Source and DocumentationB: Aug 21 | U0 B5 | Source Dossier: AI Source and Documentation
The Source Evaluator marks where you are: [O 1/4] for Origin through to [L 4/4] for Limitations. It will move you to the next letter after about three exchanges, even when your answer still feels rough. That is deliberate. Last time this ran, every conversation spent the whole period on Origin and never reached Limitations, which is the letter your Dossier is weakest on and the one the rubric looks hardest at. A rough L beats a flawless O.
What you're submitting today
Two artifacts today; both go into the dossier you'll hand in at the start of Block 7.
Full template, all fields. The "one thing the AI got wrong" field must be specific to your topic; vague entries here are what the rubric treats as an incomplete template.
Submit via Google Classroom (link posted in August)One question before you leave
Three to five minutes. Your answer is saved to your reflection journal, where you can read back everything you have written this year.
We'll surface the most interesting shifts in Block 6.
Today's reflection is in Google Classroom, under Reflection Journal.
Link posted in AugustSign in with your school account. Your teacher can see what you write here.