2 Weekly learning journal
One short entry a week, due Thursday night
The journal is a record of what you tried. Each week you set out to learn something with AI (see Learn it with AI), and the journal is where you write down how it went. It takes about 30 minutes. It is marked complete or incomplete, and it is what you bring to Friday’s small group.
2.1 Weeks 1 to 3: the entry
Answer four questions. A few sentences each is enough.
1. What I set out to learn
The topic, and why it matters for my work or my specialty.
2. How I used AI to learn it
Which tool, which prompts, what I asked it to do.
What worked well enough that I would do it again?
3. What went wrong, and how I noticed
Something vague, wrong, made up, or unhelpful, and what tipped me off.
(If nothing went wrong, what did I do to be sure?)
4. One thing I checked
One claim that mattered, the source I checked it against, and
whether the AI had it right.Optional: share a resource. If you found a paper, video, podcast, or tool worth a classmate’s time, add one or two, with a sentence on why. The best ones go into the starter resources for future students.
2.2 Week 4: what you will keep
No new topic. Write a short piece, roughly 300 to 500 words:
- the two or three ways of using AI you will keep using in residency, and why,
- one place you decided AI does not belong in your work, and why,
- what you would tell an incoming intern who is nervous about these tools.
Draw on your weeks 1 to 3 entries. Prepare a five-minute version for your Friday small group on November 6. Slides optional.
2.3 Submission
Through the course form, by Thursday night: October 15, 22, and 29, and November 5 for the week 4 piece. VERIFY: link to the Microsoft Form Plain text is fine.
2.4 Using AI to write the journal
You may use AI to help you think, organise, or tidy your writing. The experiences and the judgments must be yours. One sentence at the end saying how you used AI on the entry, if you did, is enough. That is the same disclosure journals and residency programs now expect.