If you don't know how to use AI for learning, this book will get you started.
AI can explain anything, quiz you on anything and write anything. That is exactly the problem. Used one way, it builds real capability. Used another way, the homework gets done and the learning is skipped. The difference is not how much AI you use. It is who does the thinking.
The Right Difficulty is a practical field guide for students, parents, teachers, headteachers and anyone learning for work. It maps 1,695 distinct ways AI can support learning, drawn from EDU-AI-01, a governed research programme, and gives 664 of them as ready-to-use cards. Every card tells you:
- what to do, with a realistic example
- what you'll become able to do
- what you do and what AI does
- why it can help, and how it can go wrong
- how you'll know that learning happened
- a prompt you can paste into any AI tool
The cards follow ten things learners do: Orient, Diagnose, Understand, Practise, Test, Challenge, Build, Create, Research and Organise. A fast-track guide shows parents, students, educators and professionals where to begin. The Educator's Workbench covers assessment, marking, planning and adaptation. A complete map lists all 1,695 uses, and every governed record is online at mnemosynes.com/atlas.
The book is honest about evidence. It never tells you a use "works". It tells you why it might, how it can fail, and how to check.
This book teaches the practice. Prompt & Circumstance teaches the theory.
Written openly with AI, under human direction, which is also the subject of the book.
