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Prompting for Real Life
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Beginner
Class 01
AI Made Simple
Understand ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Copilot, and today’s major AI tools without technical jargon.
- Level
- Beginner
- Duration
- 3 hours
- Lessons
- 8 lessons
- Format
- Self-paced video + guided practice
- Tracks
- Personal, Families, Nonprofit
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Course overview
This is the front door to LifeQuest AI. In three hours you will get a clear, plain-language picture of what today’s AI tools actually are, what they do well, where they fail, and how to start using them safely. No math, no code, no hype — just a working understanding you can act on the same day.
Who this is for
- Anyone who has heard about AI but never really used it
- People who tried ChatGPT once and were not sure what to do next
- Professionals who need to speak credibly about AI at work
- Family members helping others get started
What you’ll learn
- What AI tools actually do when you type into them
- How ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and Copilot differ and when to pick each
- Why AI sometimes gets things confidently wrong, and how to catch it
- What is safe to share with an AI tool and what is not
- How to set up free and paid accounts sensibly
- Your first five useful, repeatable uses
Curriculum
6 modules · 8 lessons- A short, honest explanation of how these tools work
- The vocabulary you actually need (and what to ignore)
- Why the tools feel human but are not
- ChatGPT: the versatile generalist
- Claude: long documents and careful reasoning
- Gemini: Google ecosystem and research
- Copilot: AI inside Microsoft 365
- Choosing your primary tool and your backup
- Setting up your account and workspace
- Your first useful task, start to finish
- Following up instead of starting over
- Hallucinations: what they are and how to spot them
- Where AI is strong and where it is weak
- A simple verification habit for anything that matters
- What not to paste into an AI tool
- Personal data, work data, and client data
- Settings worth changing on day one
- Explain something confusing
- Draft something you have been avoiding
- Summarize something long
- Compare two options
- Plan something with many steps
Hands-on exercises
Run the same task in two different AI tools and compare the results
Catch a deliberate error planted in an AI response
Write your personal AI ground rules (one page)
Expected outcomes
- You can explain AI to someone else in plain language
- You have a primary AI tool set up and in use
- You have completed five real tasks with AI
- You have a personal safety and verification habit
Tools used
ChatGPT Claude Gemini Microsoft Copilot
Skills you build
AI fundamentalsTool selectionVerification habitsAI safety basics
Instructor
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LifeQuest AI Foundations Faculty
Instructor details for this class are being finalized.
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