# Claude Teaches Claude ## *Learn Claude from the best teacher there is: Claude himself.* ### Start here — how to run any class in this series --- ## What is in this folder Ten class files. Each one is a complete seventy-five minute class. You do not need to read them, and you do not need to know the material — the AI teaches from the file, you run the room. | File | Class | The one rule it teaches | |---|---|---| | `AI-101-…` | Understanding AI | Use it for things you can check | | `AI-102-…` | What It Can Reach | Let it read freely, be careful what you let it change | | `AI-103-…` | Asking Better | Say what you want, then say what you got | | `AI-104-…` | Judging The Answer | Check the part you can, doubt the rest by the same amount | | `AI-105-…` | Writing In Your Own Voice | It drafts, you decide | | `AI-106-…` | Letting It Do Things | If it gets this wrong at 3am, what happens? | | `AI-107-…` | What It Costs | Buy the thing you have already outgrown | | `AI-108-…` | When Not To Use It | Do not outsource anything you would have to defend | | `AI-109-…` | Teaching Somebody Else | If you cannot say it plainly, you do not have it yet | | `AI-110-…` | What Happens Next | Be suspicious of anybody who sounds certain | Also here: `Claude-Teaches-Series-Outline.md` — the map of how they fit together and why they are in this order. --- **A note on the symbols:** in this file, a line that starts with `>` is a quotation, and words between `**` are bold. Neither symbol is part of what you paste or type. Only paste the plain words. ## SET IT UP ONCE — five minutes, then never again **This is the route to use if you will run more than one class.** 1. Go to **claude.ai** and sign in 2. Left sidebar → **Projects** → **New Project** 3. Name it: **Claude Teaches Claude** 4. Click **Set project instructions** and paste the text in the box below, exactly as it is (copy only the words inside the box): ``` You teach these classes aloud to a live room. The user is the operator, not a student — they relay audience questions to you by repeating them. The class files are in project knowledge. The operator will tell you which class to teach; teach only that one and do not blend material from the others. Keep answers short and spoken, not written. Deliver one block at a time and stop at the end of each block so the operator can move the room. ``` 5. Upload **all ten class files** to the project's knowledge 6. Save **From then on**, open the project, start a new chat, and type this (use the number of the class you are teaching, 101 to 110; start with 101): ``` Teach AI 101. Start at Block One. ``` That is it. Nothing to paste, ever again. --- ## OR DO IT THE QUICK WAY — two minutes, works every time Use this if you are running a class today and just need it working. 1. Open Claude — the app or **claude.ai** 2. Start a **new chat** 3. Open the one class file you are teaching and **copy the whole thing** 4. Paste it in 5. Underneath, type exactly this (just the words, without the box): ``` You are teaching this class. I am the operator. Start at Block One. ``` **Downside:** you paste it again every time. --- ## WHERE TO RUN IT **Practise on friends and family first.** Before you book anything, sit four people you know in a room and teach them AI 101. You will find out in the first ten minutes which parts you actually understand, what the audio sounds like from the back, and how long a block really takes. That is not a lesser version of doing it properly. It is how this series got built — every class here was run for family before it was run for anybody else, and the things that needed fixing only ever showed up out loud. **Then, when you want a room of strangers:** you do not need a venue of your own, and you almost certainly do not need to pay for one. **Try your local library.** Most public libraries have a meeting room they lend free to residents, and many are actively looking for programmes to put in it. A free class explaining AI plainly to people who are nervous about it is close to exactly what they are trying to book. Ask for the branch manager, or whoever runs adult programming. Have three things ready: - **How long** — seventy-five minutes - **How many** — six is plenty, twelve is comfortable - **What you need** — chairs, a socket, and permission to bring a speaker That is the whole ask. **Also worth asking:** community centres, senior centres, church halls, clubs, coworking spaces. Anywhere with chairs and a socket. Ask what night their room sits empty — that is the night they will say yes to. **Whatever the venue tells you about the audio, test it yourself, in that room.** Every venue believes their room is fine. --- ## BEFORE YOU WALK IN **The one thing that ever fails is audio.** Test it in the actual room, not at home. Stand at the back wall and have it say a sentence. If you cannot hear it from there, you need a PA rather than a speaker. **Some classes need something arranged in advance.** Check the room setup checklist at the top of the class file. In particular: - **AI 102 and AI 106** need a working connector, tested on the room's wifi - **AI 103** needs failed requests collected from people as they arrive - **AI 105** needs somebody willing to have their writing read out - **AI 107** needs today's actual prices, written on a card - **AI 109** needs a volunteer arranged privately, and printed copies of AI 101's running order --- ## OPTIONAL: a second microphone for the room Everything works on a phone and a speaker. This is an upgrade, not a requirement. If you have a wireless handheld microphone, pass it to whoever is asking a question and feed the receiver into the phone alongside your own mic. Then the audience is talking to it directly and **you stop having to repeat every question** — which is otherwise the single most repeated instruction in the whole series. A handheld on an extension pole is worth having. Passing a mic down a row is much faster than walking it over, and it keeps you at the front of the room. **Two things to test before you rely on it:** - **Levels.** The receiver's line output into a phone's microphone input is usually too hot and distorts. You may need a proper adapter or a small USB audio interface. - **Feedback.** If the room mic feeds the AI and the speaker plays the AI's voice back into the same room, it can hear itself and start answering its own output. Put the speaker in front of the microphones pointing away from them, or mute the handheld while it is talking. **This will not show up until there is a live room and a hot mic, so test it deliberately.** --- ## IF SOMETHING GOES WRONG MID-CLASS **It crashed, or the audio dropped:** > "We are teaching AI 104. Pick up at Block Four." Every block is self-contained. It does not need the earlier ones re-explained. **It is drifting or repeating itself:** > "Reset. Block [number]. Go." **It is giving long written-sounding answers:** > "Shorter, and say it out loud for the room." **It cannot answer something:** good. Let it say so. Do not rescue it — that is the whole lesson happening live, and it is more convincing than anything in the file. --- ## THE FOUR THINGS THAT MAKE THESE WORK **1. You are the operator, not the co-teacher.** You do not need to know the material. You need to be the human in the room — reacting, asking the obvious question, repeating audience questions clearly. **2. Repeat every question.** It cannot hear the room. Say the question back clearly and a little slowly. **3. Never cut the demonstration or the questions.** If you are running long, cut from the middle blocks. The demo sells the class and the questions are why people came. **4. Let it be wrong in public.** Every class has a moment where it gets caught or refuses something. Those moments consistently outperform the scripted material. Do not smooth them over — point at them. --- ## A COMPANION EXISTS FOR AI 101 `AI-101-Presenter-Companion.pdf` covers the operator role in much more detail — the double-act framing, where your material goes, how to handle a quiet room. It was written for AI 101 but nearly all of it applies to every class in the series. --- *Claude Teaches Claude · Ten classes · DMPGH · September 2026*