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Three-Week AI-Assisted Reading Pilot

Read with AI while keeping judgment and explanation with the learner. A three-week course proposal for better general education.

Educators designing AI-assisted reading classes · TF for AI-Enhanced General Education · 2026.10.08

 Original cover slide of the Three-Week AI-Assisted Reading Pilot

What this project covers

  • Three weeks of finding source evidence and checking omissions and exaggerations in AI summaries
  • Student records of judgments, evidence, and revisions, with instructor operating criteria

Presentation outline

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  1. Three weeks of reading sources and judging AI sentences
  2. The question this pilot examines
  3. International examples and the scope of application
  4. Teaching through checking, comparing, and revising
  5. Three records used every week
  6. Short source text + AI summary
  7. Week 1: Check evidence with the instructor
  8. First action
  9. Student activity
  10. Record to keep
  11. Week 2: Compare omissions and exaggerations with a partner
  12. Student activity
  13. The partner's role
  14. Record to keep
  15. Week 3: Revise or retain independently
  16. Practice text R3
  17. If it is not wrong
  18. Final check
  19. Applying the pilot and assessing learning
  20. Criteria retained across subjects
  21. Three areas of diagnosis
  22. Understand and check AI
  23. Read the source and judge
  24. Understand the course content
  25. An eight-point rubric for the judgment process
  26. Limits when interpreting the results
  27. Changes within the same students
  28. Effects not established
  29. Operating conditions and committee decisions
  30. Instructor preparation and equitable participation
  31. Three texts · Three summaries
  32. Obsidian, LMS, or paper
  33. Can run without internet
  34. Four decisions for the committee
  35. Which courses?
  36. When, and for how many minutes?
  37. Which materials and tools?
  38. What evidence will inform the decision?
  39. Schedule and assessment tools
  40. A 120-minute plan and a 50-minute adaptation
  41. 50-minute adaptation
  42. Reading-performance rubric
  43. Provisional AI literacy diagnostic questions
  44. AI says it works for everyone.
  45. An AI answer includes a plausible-looking source.
  46. You are about to upload material containing student names to AI.
  47. Synthetic example: restoring conditions through revision
  48. Sources and limits of verification
  49. Source list
  50. Attachment: international AI-assisted reading examples
  51. Northeastern · Checking AI summary accuracy
  52. Monash · NotebookLM as a reading tutor
  53. UCLA HumTech · AI-prompted reading reflections

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