Couch Scholar
Guided Learning Experience

Working With AI

Fluency, Judgment & Getting Better Work Done

Practical AI fluency for professionals — held together with verification, confidentiality, judgment and responsibility.

Iron Man or The Devil Wears Prada

What should you hand to AI — and what should remain yours?

You'll be able to:

  • Frame professional work clearly enough that a capable collaborator — human or AI — could contribute to it.
  • Work with AI iteratively, adding context and challenging output, rather than handing work over in one shot.
  • Verify AI output in proportion to what is at stake, treating fluency as no evidence of accuracy.
  • Distinguish what a tool can produce from what the professional must decide and remains responsible for.
  • Redesign one real piece of recurring work so AI improves it rather than simply being added to it.

You'll leave with: My AI Working Agreement

No need to have seen it first.

Begin the experience

Never share confidential, personally identifiable, student, personnel, health or privileged information — describe the work generally instead.

Choose your story

Two doorways, one destination. Both routes develop the same capabilities, use the same standards of evidence, and end in the same working agreement. Pick the one you would rather think inside.

Iron Man

Work alongside a powerful technological collaborator.

An engineer and an always-available assistant: proposal, objection, revision, testing — and who still carries the consequences.

Begin with Iron Man

The Devil Wears Prada

Become effective inside a demanding professional system.

Requests that are never the whole assignment, effectiveness built from context — and what becoming more capable can quietly cost.

Begin with The Devil Wears Prada

You can change stories while you are still in Observe. After that, your chosen story stays with you for the rest of the experience.

The question at the center

What should you hand to AI — and what should remain yours?

Why it matters

Most AI advice is either hype or prohibition. Neither helps you decide what to hand over in the work you actually do, how hard to check what comes back, or what has to stay yours no matter how good the tool gets.

The Learning Everywhere Framework™

Five stages, one working agreement. You decide when to move.

  1. 1

    Observe

    Watch how capability and judgment divide in your chosen story.

  2. 2

    Connect

    Bring one real, recurring piece of your own work.

  3. 3

    Analyze

    Framing, verification, bias, oversight and responsibility.

  4. 4

    Apply

    Build My AI Working Agreement in your own words.

  5. 5

    Reflect

    Name what stays yours, and why.

Potato, the Couch Scholar AI learning coach

Potato™, your learning coach

Here the conversation is itself the laboratory: you are working with AI while you learn about working with AI. Potato will invite you to notice how it frames, where it could be wrong, and what it should never be handed.

What you'll walk away with

  • An AI Working Agreement for one real, recurring piece of your work
  • A verification habit sized to what is actually at stake
  • A clear line between what a tool can produce and what you decide and answer for
Begin the experience