Facilitator guide — One Small Idea, Two Versions

Labs reference: Facilitator guide — One Small Idea, Two Versions.

This Alpha lab has complete written materials for review. Learning-design and accessibility review remain open; classroom evidence is deferred under REN-535.

Materials to have open

Open with a small choice

Read both Gallery examples before the session. Let the group choose talking mountains or an imaginary icehouse sign, then invite one intent and one boundary. Run a live text prompt. Inspect what actually comes back; the constructed Gallery draft is an example, not an output to stage.

Use one learner-suggested revision and compare the two versions aloud. Ask what the change gains and loses. Do not make the demonstration a contest to produce the funniest line.

Move from demonstration to practice

In person, learners may work alone, with a partner, or around one shared device. In Zoom, use the same choices with shared text or a facilitator-operated exchange; learners direct the prompt and make the revision. No separate account, recording, public performance, or upload is required.

After the opening, each learner or group chooses an idea or unworked variation, participates in the live AI request, and creates two versions. Watching alone prepares someone to begin but does not replace those decisions. Self-study learners may inspect one example before doing their own practice.

Protect room for play

Accept a strange or unfinished piece. Keep requests small enough that a learner can inspect and change the result. If AI supplies too much, select a sentence or exchange and work there. A spoken comparison is enough; do not require all Notebook fields.

The mountains can talk while the measurement distinction remains intact. The icehouse keeper belongs to an imagined setting; do not turn the dialogue into a reconstruction of ancient life. If learners introduce a real claim, help them find its source or remove the claim. Keep this a creative exercise, not advice about food storage.

Debrief the decisions

Ask what AI contributed, which choice belonged to the learner, and where the second version changes the effect. Invite learners to prefer the first version or keep the result private. Sharing is a separate choice. A polished output is not classroom evidence that the learner understood or owned the decisions.

Source: labs/small-idea-two-versions/facilitator-guide.md