AI Engagement for Lifelong Learning

Mark Keith, PhD

More than 60 percent of U.S. working-age adults now use generative AI, so the real question for students is no longer whether they will use it, but what it will do to them over time. This resource, designed for any program from business to general education, teaches the habits that make students more capable instead of more dependent. Students choose one major AI tool, such as Claude or ChatGPT, and stay with it throughout, so their work is judged on their framing, checking, and judgment rather than the product name. Built on the AI Engagement Model, they learn calibrated trust, how to avoid the Oracle Trap of uncritical acceptance, and how to preserve their own judgment. Working through a running business case, they frame problems before building, manage AI as part of an evidence team, build, test, and verify, then integrate the evidence, decide, and defend their work. The result is durable AI fluency that transfers to any tool.