Practical AI: Field Guide to Working with Claude - Students Edition

Artificial intelligence is already in your hands. The question is whether you'll use it with judgment - or just push the buttons.Practical AI, Student Edition is a classroom field guide to working with AI: the thinking behind it, not a list of features that will be obsolete by next term. Built around a single durable lens - judgment, honesty, scrutiny, and friction - every chapter pairs plain-English explanation with hands-on "Try This" practice and review questions, so you learn to question the tool rather than trust it blindly.You'll move from your first real conversation with AI to more advanced work - writing and editing, research and reasoning, working with data and code, and building practical workflows - always with the human kept firmly in the loop. Each chapter ends with a summary, key terms to define in your own words, and questions that check your understanding.Written for real classrooms and self-motivated learners alike, this is the student's core text in the three-edition Practical AI line (Student, Annotated Instructor's, and Independent Learner's editions), designed to be used together. The technology will keep changing; the judgment it teaches will last.