Lesson 0 · A self-paced workshop
AI Literacy Framework
Diligence, delegation, direction and discernment for working with AI
Before you start
Work through this on your own, with a partner or with a group.
This self-driven AI literacy workshop was adapted from a live workshop. It’s based on the AI Fluency 4D Framework from Dakan, Feller and Anthropic.
The aim is developing a way of working with AI that holds up, whatever the rules are where you study or work. Each part of this workshop has a few short ideas and gives you something to try in your AI tool of choice.
Four habits for working with AI
Delegation, direction, discernment and diligence (the 4Ds) help you decide how to work with AI, explain what you need, evaluate the result, and take responsibility for its use.
These are connected decisions, not a one-time checklist. The lines all meet at your task and none of them runs in a fixed order, because you’ll move between the four as the work changes.
Adapted from the AI Fluency Framework (© 2025 Rick Dakan and Joseph Feller, CC BY-NC-SA 4.0), where Direction is called Description.
The seven parts of this workshop
- 1Where you’re startingHow you use AI now, and the reasons to be skeptical and to want to learn more.
- 2The workflow and first checksThe four habits as a workflow, and what to ask before any task goes near an AI tool.
- 3DelegationWho should do the job: me, AI or another person?
- 4Direction and discernmentDirect, judge, redirect. Four tests to run yourself.
- 5Eight ways to make AI a thinking partnerPrompts where the AI asks, checks or plays dumb, and you do the thinking.
- 6Transparency and accountabilityOwn every claim. Disclose how AI was used.
- 7Putting it to workThe 4Ds in four questions, and where to go next.