Human+AI Practice Pathway

Thinking With AI

Move from panic and one-shot answer seeking to deliberate dialogue, critical push-back, visible reasoning, developmental scaffolding, and strategic cognitive offloading.

Six guided Studios · Designed for institution-supported cohorts of up to 25 named participants

From prompting to partnership

This pathway develops the harder skill beneath prompt technique: knowing how to question, challenge, scaffold, verify, and strategically collaborate with AI while preserving meaningful human judgment.

  • Six sequenced, interactive Practice Studios
  • Facilitator-supported discussion and application
  • A culminating implementation project
  • Private responses stored in each participant’s browser

Free foundation: From Prompting to Partnership is available before this pathway, but it is not one of the six required Studios. Facilitators may waive it when participants already demonstrate the foundational capabilities.

Discuss institutional access

Who it is for and how it works

Thinking With AI is designed for faculty, staff, or a mixed cohort. Participants work through the same core Human+AI practices, then apply them to challenges from their own roles.

Faculty and staff

One pathway, role-specific application

The pathway develops practices that travel across roles: making thinking visible, testing assumptions, challenging first answers, verifying claims, deciding what to delegate, and preserving human judgment.

Faculty can apply the work to teaching and course design. Staff can apply it to advising, operations, communications, analysis, leadership, or student support. A mixed cohort can be especially valuable because participants see how the same practices transfer across the institution.

Other pathways are more faculty-centered. For example, From AI-Vulnerable to AI-Partnered Courses focuses directly on course and assignment redesign.

Local facilitation

A cohort convener, not an AI lecturer

The institution identifies one primary facilitator. That person does not need to be an AI expert or teach the six Studios; the interactive Practice Studios provide the core learning experience.

The facilitator keeps the group on schedule, hosts short discussions, helps participants connect the practices to their roles, monitors completion, and guides and reviews the implementation projects.

The Competency Practice Pathway includes a train-the-trainer onboarding session, facilitator resources, and the project-review framework. Facilitators see completion progress, not participants' private Studio responses.

Facilitators receive the resource hub link during onboarding.

A sample eight-week schedule

This cadence combines self-paced practice, short cohort conversations, and a real implementation project.

  1. Before launch

    Prepare the cohort

    Identify the facilitator, complete facilitator onboarding, enroll up to 25 participants, and confirm the cohort calendar.

  2. Week 1

    From Panic to Perspective

    Complete the first Studio, then open the cohort with a short discussion about reading AI-and-learning claims in proportion.

  3. Week 2

    The Cognitive Microscope

    Practice making reasoning visible through AI dialogue and debrief what that looks like across participant roles.

  4. Week 3

    From Magic Eightball to Thinking Partner

    Move beyond one-shot answers and identify the real institutional or role-based challenge each participant will address in an implementation project.

  5. Week 4

    The Push-Back Protocol

    Test assumptions, counterarguments, and alternatives in the proposed project.

  6. Week 5

    The Scaffold That Teaches

    Develop the support, feedback, and testing plan for the implementation project.

  7. Week 6

    The Three Zones

    Clarify what AI should support, what should remain human-led, and what should not be delegated. Completing all six Studios earns the Thinking With AI Practice Credential.

  8. Week 7

    Pilot and gather feedback

    Participants pilot or simulate their implementation artifacts and collect feedback for revision.

  9. Week 8

    Revise, submit, and review

    Participants submit revised artifacts. The facilitator reviews projects with the provided framework, and approved projects earn the Human+AI Competency: Thinking With AI.

Estimated time: 75 minutes per week for Weeks 1–6. This includes approximately 45 minutes for the self-paced Studio plus a 30-minute cohort conversation. The pathway can stretch to 10–12 weeks when a cohort wants more time between Studios or for project development.

The six-session pathway

Institutional pathway pricing

Badge & Practice Credential Pathway

$4,500

One cohort of up to 25 participants.

  • Six Human+AI Skill Badges
  • Human+AI Practice Credential
  • Dashboard and cohort report

Competency Practice Pathway

$7,500

One cohort of up to 25 participants.

  • Everything in the Practice Credential pathway
  • Facilitator onboarding session
  • Project review authority
  • Human+AI Competency credentials

Institutional Portfolio

$25,000/year

Up to three pathways, four cohorts, and 100 pathway enrollments, with annual reporting.

Workshop continuation: A discount is available when an institutional pathway continues from an in-person workshop. View complete institutional pricing and bundles.

Your pathway progress

Sign in with your institution-enrolled account to see recorded Skill Badges, Practice Credential, and Competency credential.

Completion tracking stores activity counts, dates, and credential IDs—not your Practice Studio answers, reflections, or AI conversations.