What Do I Do?

This course uses a unique "post-mediated learning" model, where your research doesn't just sit in a folder: it actively builds the world around you. We begin with an AI-generated story starter featuring a character created freshly for you. Your goal is to act as the "intelligence officer" for that character. By using our unit’s research questions, you will investigate real-world data, historical facts, and media sources that could help shape your character's journey. For every two Media Logs you submit via the Google Form, the AI will "read" your findings and generate a new page of the story, incorporating the specific details, locations, or warnings you discovered. By the end of the unit, your character’s fate will be a direct reflection of the quality and depth of your research.

Your Daily Routine

Most days in the course will look pretty similar. Everything you need is in your Dashboard. One “day” is based on a normal 75-minute class:

1. Review Your Story The course follows the story you're co-writing with AI. You decide how you want the story to progress, and then research the things you would need to know to be able to develop the story in that direction.
2. Select Research Questions and Complete 2 Media Logs (40 mins) | Assessment As Learning
   Select one or more questions that occur reasonably closely to your story’s current date, and find answers that connect the question to your character’s life. Based on your research, complete 2 Media Logs every day for things you have read or watched. Your research will be fed into your AI co-author, who will generate additional years of story every time you submit two media logs.
3. Write a Quiz Question (15 mins) | Assessment Of Learning
   For every 2 media logs, write one Multiple Choice Quiz Question that highlights the historical significance of what you researched.

Then...

You may have noticed that the tasks above only add up to 55 minutes. With the time remaining, you can work on any of these tasks:

1. Teach Your Friends and Family (Tutorial) | Assessment For Learning
   Do a Tutorial assignment a few times each unit. You record yourself telling someone in your life about a historical fact or event that you think is interesting.
2. Modify Your Story (Family Tree Diaries) | Assessment Of Learning
   You will keep a second Google Doc, where you will copy and paste the AI-generated content, and modify or update it to add details and make it your own.

At The End of The Unit

Once you have submitted 44 Media Logs, you should:

1. Find a Theme (Artefact) | Assessment Of Learning
   At the end of every unit, select an Artefact that represents the time period from the unit and explain why.

2. **Articulate New Research Skills (Media Log Review) | Assessment Of Learning****
   Go through your Media Logs and record a video of you discussing some things that you’ve learned to identify. The goal here isn’t for you to be perfect, but to show that you have been growing. Try to show one example of each of the CRAAP elements, and provide a bibliography.

3. **Submit Your Assignments****
   Submit your Artefact, Tutorials, Media Log Review, and a copy of your Modified Story to the appropriate Unit Assignment in Google Classroom.

At The End of The Course

Once you have completed all four units, you can:

1. **Create a Scrapbook for Your Character’s Life after 2002****
   By the end of the course, you will have co-written a fairly extensive story with AI. Create a “scrapbook” that pulls together the most important historical events from your character’s life between the final year of Media Logs (2002) and the present day.