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Companion prompts and worked artifacts

Reusable prompts and worked examples from Learning with AI: A Framework for Students, Instructors, and Universities by James M. Hyman (SIAM Books).

These are shared across audiences. The student and instructor materials live in students/ and instructors/.

Material Who it is for What it is
spp/ Students Study Partner Protocol: a paste-in prompt that turns an assistant into a study partner
dpp/ Students Define Personal Preferences: a walkthrough for configuring an AI tool’s persistent settings
layered-explanation/ Students A prompt that explains a hard concept at three levels at once: an everyday analogy, your working level, and one step deeper
compact/ Students The five-part Student Compact from Part I, printable and signable
course-case-study/ Instructors A first numerical-analysis course designed end to end with the framework: syllabus AI policy, three assignments, an in-person exam, and the reasoning behind each choice
instructor-capabilities/ Instructors A working guide to AI tools for teaching preparation: what each is good for, how to use it well, what a good result looks like, and how to obtain current ones
spiral-problems/ Instructors A method for recasting single-answer problems so that working them runs the Learning Spiral, with worked before-and-after pairs from a writing course, a data course, and a first-year lab

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