# AI Teachers — Your First Week with AI

Free practice workbook. Suggested pace: 15–25 minutes per day; take longer when you need it.
Use fictional or permitted inputs. Verify important claims. No promised time savings.

## Day 1: Choose your first win

List five tasks you repeat. Pick one with clear inputs, a result you can check, and a low cost of error.

Task: ___
Current effort: ___ minutes
A useful result contains: ___

Guide: https://aiteachers.cc/blog/getting-started-with-ai/

## Day 2: Write a useful brief

Give the AI your goal, source material, audience, constraints, and desired format. Ask it to mark missing information.

Goal: ___
Audience: ___
Inputs I can share: ___
Output: ___
Do not invent: ___

Guide: https://aiteachers.cc/blog/daily-ai-prompts/

## Day 3: Review the result

Compare the output with your inputs. Verify key claims and numbers; check what was omitted.

Verified: ___
Wrong or missing: ___
My correction: ___

Guide: https://aiteachers.cc/blog/what-not-to-share-with-ai/

## Day 4: Try a personal assistant task

Turn permitted notes into a realistic day plan. Include capacity, fixed commitments, buffers, and tasks to defer.

Fixed commitments: ___
Available time: ___
Priorities: ___
What can wait: ___

Guide: https://aiteachers.cc/blog/personal-ai-assistant/

## Day 5: Ask for a fair challenge

Describe a decision neutrally. Compare alternatives using the same criteria and request the evidence that would change the answer.

Decision: ___
Options: ___
Evidence: ___
Unknowns: ___
Next check: ___

Guide: https://aiteachers.cc/blog/get-honest-feedback-from-ai/

## Day 6: Repeat before you automate

Run the task on a second input. Note where it fails, who reviews it, and what should happen when information is unavailable.

Trigger: ___
Input: ___
Review owner: ___
Stop condition: ___
Output destination: ___

Guide: https://aiteachers.cc/blog/best-tasks-to-automate-first/

## Day 7: Decide what to keep

Compare total effort, including briefing, review and rework. Keep, simplify or stop the workflow based on the result.

Usual effort: ___
AI setup: ___
Review/rework: ___
Total: ___
Quality: ___
Keep/change/stop: ___

Guide: https://aiteachers.cc/blog/beyond-prompts-repeatable-workflows/