Sessions
The twelve-week teaching schedule: what happens in each session, what to prepare, and what leaves the room.
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Connected, but what do you understand?
Work through a fictional Wi-Fi explanation, preserve your responses, and distinguish what happened from what you can conclude about understanding.
Week 1 · 22 February 2027
What your explanation leaves out
Run the rate, explain and re-rate protocol on a zip fastener, annotate your own explanation against a technical description, and defend one claim from what you actually produced.
Week 2 · 1 March 2027
What the closed source reveals
Study a supplied explanation of a pin tumbler lock, close it, rebuild the mechanism from memory, then restore it and annotate the difference by type of loss before defending one judgement from what you produced.
Week 3 · 8 March 2027
Three conditions, one judgement
Judge the same fictional person's three accounts of one lock, choose the condition you trust, write down the rule you used, and examine what your own judging depended on.
Week 4 · 15 March 2027
Classify, disagree, produce the missing rung
Apply the course's seven-rung ladder to performances from earlier weeks and your own work, then produce the one kind of evidence no prior week has supplied.
Week 5 · 22 March 2027
Design a test that isn't fooled by the resource
Sort three fictional resource cases against Clark and Chalmers' four conditions, then design a content-change test for a real resource you use.
Week 6 · 29 March 2027
Explain it two ways
Produce the same explanation for two genuinely different audiences or problems, then use the transfer-of-learning literature to decide what the pair actually shows.
Week 7 · 5 April 2027
Set your own surprise
Write a prepared explanation of something you already know, meet an unannounced follow-up question you have not seen yet, and record what the surprise did and did not settle.
Week 8 · 12 April 2027
Write it down before you know
Record a prediction and confidence level before checking a reference, then compare it honestly against your revised answer, to see what a prior state can and cannot establish.
Week 9 · 19 April 2027
What a transcript can't settle
Repeat the knowledge paper-swap with a live AI (or human) collaborator present throughout, keep a three-way attribution record, and find out what even careful transcription cannot resolve.
Week 10 · 26 April 2027
Design and administer a real examination
Design a short instrument from Week 11's five decisions, then administer it to a real second person and keep an honest record of what it does and does not establish.
Week 11 · 3 May 2027
Write a claim you can defend
Take a real piece of evidence from earlier in this course, write the specific claim it justifies and the specific claim it does not, and check your reasoning against a hard case that resists a clean verdict.
Week 12 · 10 May 2027