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Critical AI Literacy Library Guide for Instructors, LaGuardia Community College

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The Three Moves of Information Seeking with Search-Assisted AI

Colorful infographic showing a three-step cycle for using sources. On the left, an orange box titled “Get it in” shows icons of a phone, chat bubbles, and a photo feeding into a funnel and an index card, with text: “Instead of keywords, provide a neutrally framed claim, query, or media artifact. Don’t worry about the perfect formulation, this is just a first step.” A curved arrow points to a green box on the upper right titled “Track it down,” with icons of a map, a document, and photos, and text about looking at cited sources, checking their nature and quality, and verifying summaries for accuracy and synthesis. A second arrow points to a purple box on the lower right titled “Follow up,” with icons of charts, gears, and a checklist, and text about refining output with follow-up prompts, using source-focused language, surfacing good sources, and mapping what is known and unknown. A final arrow loops back toward “Get it in,” emphasizing the iterative process.

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