A summary carries the claim. It drops the reasoning around it, and the reasoning is usually why you put the reading on the syllabus. In about twenty minutes you will leave this page holding one finished class session, built around one real reading from your course and the one passage a summary leaves out.
Nothing here is generated for you. You pick the reading, you find the passage, you write the questions. That is the point.
Why this exists: a summary judgment brief unsealed on September 17 in the news organizations’ lawsuit against OpenAI and Microsoft says Microsoft’s CEO agreed under oath that chatbots give people the information “versus needing to go to the underlying source.” Read the full post.
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Seed. The reading you are protecting
Sprout. What the summary says
Paste the reading into the chatbot your students actually use and ask for a short summary. If you would rather not, write the three sentences you expect a student to walk in with. Either way, you are looking at what your class will know if they never open the source.
Grow. The passage it dropped
Read the original with the summary beside it. Look for four things a summary tends to lose: the qualification where the author limits the claim, the example that makes the idea stick, the turn where the argument changes direction, and the voice that tells you how sure the writer is.
Harvest. The twenty minutes
That is one reading.
Look at what you just built. A session where the thing the room discusses is not in the summary, so the reading stops being optional without a quiz, a detector or a speech about integrity.
Now open your syllabus. There is a reading attached to nearly every week, in every section you teach. Finding the passage is the part only you can do. Turning it into a timed plan, a handout and a slide outline, week after week, is the part that quietly stops happening by midterm.
That assembly is what the Lesson Plan Builder does. It is stage three of the Course Creation Pathway in the Faculty Toolkit, and the toolkit describes it in four phrases: timed plans, handouts, slide outlines, video scripts. You keep the judgment. Review first, always. Do the first one by hand anyway. It is how you will know what good looks like.
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