AI Workshop Agenda & Hands-On Lab Plan

Education DesignLearning & DevelopmentAI Training Workshops

Problem Statement

Design an AI-assisted workflow that converts inputs about a workshop's audience level, theme, allowed tools, and desired outcomes into a complete 60–120 minute training package. The package must include an agenda, lab exercise, facilitation notes, and take-home resources while respecting constraints such as inclusivity, non-sensitive examples, and a no-install option. The workflow should help an AI educator rapidly generate practical, team-based workshop materials.

Steps

1

Ingest Workshop Requirements

INGEST

Collect audience level, workshop theme, allowed tools, and desired learning outcomes from the user. Normalize vague or incomplete inputs into clear constraints for the workshop design.

2

Retrieve Domain Templates & Timing Norms

EXECUTE

Pull standard timing guidelines, activity templates, and pedagogical patterns for 60–120 minute workshops to ground the design. Retrieve common no-install tool options suitable for data teams.

3

Generate Draft Agenda & Learning Goals

EXECUTE

Use the inputs and retrieved templates to define learning goals and produce a time-bound, energetic, inclusive agenda that includes at least one team activity.

4

Generate Lab Exercise & Facilitation Notes

EXECUTE

Draft a practical lab activity with starter instructions, expected outputs, a no-install fallback, and facilitation guidance such as prompts, timing cues, and common pitfalls.

5

Validate Timing & Constraints

EXECUTE

Check that the agenda fits within 60–120 minutes, includes a teamwork activity, uses non-sensitive examples, and aligns with allowed tools or defaults to no-install options when unspecified.

6

Package Workshop Materials

EXECUTE

Assemble agenda, lab exercise, facilitation notes, and take-home resource list into a cohesive output ready for delivery by the educator.

Prompt Configurations

Workshop Design Prompt

Model: gpt-4oTemp: 0.7
You are an energetic, practical, inclusive AI workshop designer. Using the provided audience level, workshop theme, allowed tools, and desired outcomes, produce:
1. A 60–120 minute timed agenda.
2. A lab exercise with starter instructions, expected outputs, and a no-install fallback.
3. Facilitation notes including common pitfalls and discussion prompts.
4. A list of take-home resources.
Constraints:
- Use only generic, non-sensitive examples.
- Ensure at least one teamwork activity.
- Keep labs doable within the timeframe.
- Do not invent tools not mentioned unless required for a no-install fallback.
Respond concisely and clearly.

Example Inputs/Outputs

Input:

Audience level: Intermediate Workshop theme: Intro to Practical Feature Engineering Allowed tools: Python, Google Colab Desired outcomes: Understand common feature engineering patterns; practice transforming raw data; learn team-based brainstorming techniques.

Output:

Agenda: 90-minute plan with intro (10 min), learning goals (5 min), feature patterns mini-lecture (15 min), teamwork brainstorm challenge (10 min), hands-on Colab lab (35 min), recap + Q&A (15 min). Lab: Starter Colab with a small synthetic dataset; tasks include cleaning, encoding, and generating new features; expected outputs list included; no-install fallback uses a shared, hosted notebook. Facilitation notes: Common pitfalls (overengineering features, jumping to modeling); prompts to ask teams; inclusive discussion strategies. Resources: Colab links, feature engineering cheat sheet, glossary.