Three judges. Each hears differently.
A textbook is the contract of your lesson: this is what is tested. Wikipedia is a living encyclopaedia: often good as a crossroads, sometimes a mistake, sometimes too adult, always with links at the bottom that you should open, not worship the article as holy. A teacher is a living referee of clashes and of the brief. A chatbot is not a fourth judge of the same weight. It is a draft. Detective stacks an order: first the brief and a textbook, then a teacher when it clashes, wiki as a door to more sources, not as the only link in a report when school wants a book. People either worship wiki or spit on it. You read it as a map. A map is not the territory. The territory is a book and a lesson.
Bára finds on wiki a different year than in the textbook. Ema wants to trust wiki, “it is bigger, after all”. The teacher says: for a test the book counts, you may mention the clash when you show both. Bára writes both. Into a test goes the book. Into a report she may write: the textbook says X, wiki Y, I will check in… and she goes to a link at the bottom of wiki, not into chat. Chat invented a third year Y still. They cross that out first. Three judges, one draft. The order saved Bára from a triple lie. Worshipping wiki would mix her up at the board. Spitting on wiki would rob her of links.
On wiki scroll down to notes and links. The article at the top is a roof. Sources are in the cellar. Open the cellar.
An order of weight at school
- A teacher’s brief (in your own words, banned sources, length). 2. A textbook and lesson material. 3. A teacher, when there is a clash. 4. Wiki and an encyclopaedia as a crossroads. 5. A chatbot as a draft of questions and analogies. When 4 contradicts 2, do not let 5 “settle it”. Number five is not a judge. Write the clash. Ask. For a secondary-school report they sometimes want wiki plus a book. In lower years a book and an atlas often suffice. You do not guess. You read the brief. A detective reads the brief twice. Once with eyes, once out loud.
A clash fork.
| Situation | You take |
|---|---|
| a test, a different year wiki vs. book | the book, the clash in the margin |
| a report, the teacher wants three sources | a book + an atlas + one opened link, not chat |
| wiki has a link to a book | try that book / a catalogue |
| chat, wiki and a book three years | a teacher |
A sentence for the notebook: “Wiki is a map. A textbook is a lesson contract. A teacher is a referee. Chat is a draft.”
Do not copy a paragraph from wiki into work. The same pipe as from chat. A note + a link, or a paraphrase only in Helper.
Why this right now
You are in the course Ask with Martin, level Detective. You work in a chatbot (ChatGPT, Gemini or Claude) — same game, different brand. No code. A parent or the school creates the account. A child’s email does not belong here.
This is not the インベンター level. There you build a chatbot on your own website. Here you are a user: a question, a check, a citation.
You will know this lesson by one sentence: A textbook is a contract, wiki a map, a teacher a referee, chat a draft. When you can say it to a parent or a teacher, you have got the core. The rest is practice, not magic.
Tomorrow a fake citation. Wiki and a book are doors through which you notice a fake. Without an order of weight you would cite wiki and made-up equally loudly.
Four things you will build in this course
The course has four small projects. You do not have to do them all at once. Today you add only what this lesson can do.
🏫 A report with citations
An outline, three sources that exist, and a sentence in your own words. AI must not be the only author.
Three sources: typically a book, an atlas/map, one checked website — not wiki+chat+chat.
📝 Test training
Coach role: let it ask, do not let it say the answer. You count / answer yourself.
A coach does not need wiki. A chapter is enough.
📅 Family planner
Tasks for the week (not passwords, not marks). A parent sees the plan, not your chat.
Planner: do not trust wiki for school event dates. The school portal.
📜 An AI code for the class
Seven short rules on a poster. No horror — a how-to.
Code: an order of weight as a ladder.
Workshop: a clash on paper, not in chat
Find one fact in a textbook. Open wiki (with a parent, if that is the rule). Chat only third. Write the order, not a winner by joke.
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Pick a year or a definition from a book. コピー the page.
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Open wiki on the same. Scroll to links. Does it sit? Does it differ? Write both. Do not copy a paragraph.
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M3 chat: “only an analogy, no year.” So it does not mix judges.
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If a year clash, write a question for the teacher. Do not settle it with a third chatbot.
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In the notebook a ladder of weight. Read one task brief out loud: which judges does it want?
Practice: who has the word
For each write who decides first.
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A test tomorrow, a different definition on wiki.
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A report, the brief “three printed sources”.
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Chat says wiki and the book are both wrong.
Now you 💪
Go through three checks. At each one tick in your head: can I see it, or not?
- You can say the ladder of weight.
- You read wiki in the cellar of links too.
- You do not paste a paragraph from wiki.
If something is missing, go back to the steps above. This is not a test for marks. It is a safety net, so you go on sure, not confused.
Check: You have a written clash or agreement book/wiki and chat stayed with an analogy.
What to take from this lesson
- Order: brief, book, teacher, wiki map, chat draft.
- Wiki is not evil nor holy.
- A cellar of links > a roof of the article.
- Write a clash, do not settle it with a third bot.
- コピーing wiki is a pipe.
- The names in the examples (Bára, Ema) are made up. Do not put your number, email or photo here.
- Next lesson: When you can do this, go to the next lesson in the same level.
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