Welcome to The Classroom
The Classroom is where Trudeau.ai stops thinking out loud and starts teaching in plain view.
If The Conversation is the café where ideas get tossed around, The Classroom is the work table — quieter, more intentional, and built for people who want to learn something they can actually use.
This is the part of the site built for learning.This part of the site focuses on three themes that shape nearly everything I do as a teacher and researcher:
- clear writing,
- AI‑assisted thinking and lawyering, and
- the role of professional judgment when complex tools and high‑stakes decisions collide.
These ideas overlap constantly. You can’t teach clear writing without understanding how the human brain handles complexity. And you can’t responsibly teach AI without teaching people about professional judgment. Everything here lives at that intersection.
Why The Classroom Exists
Many people were never taught how to read, write, or learn in ways that reflect how humans actually think and make decisions. Then AI arrived and made everything louder.
The goal of The Classroom is simple: to teach skills that make people feel more capable and less overwhelmed when they’re dealing with complex ideas. Especially the kind that matter.
This space is for professionals, students, educators, and anyone who has ever reread something important and thought, This can’t possibly be the best way to explain this.
What You’ll Find Here
The Classroom will start small, but it won’t stay that way. Over time, it will grow into a library of resources at different depths and in different formats.
Short lessons. You’ll find short lessons designed to be useful in minutes — things like simple rules for clearer writing, quick tips on handling an AI answer that sounds confident yet happens to be wrong.
Deeper guides. You’ll also find deeper, structured guides on topics that deserve more space, including how to build CustomGPTs that facilitate active learning, and how to responsibly use AI as an assistant without outsourcing your professional judgment.
Tools and templates. Along the way, I’ll share tools and templates — checklists, exercises, frameworks, and models — that you can use in your own work and teaching.
Resources for Learners
The Classroom is just as much for learners as it is for teachers.
This section will include practical, step‑by‑step resources for students and professionals who want to improve how they think and make decisions — especially in AI‑assisted environments.
Learners will find a lot of things, over time: (Everyone is learning something, so I’m using the term broadly here)
- Guided lessons on reading and writing with clarity
- Exercises that build judgment, not dependence on tools
- Walkthroughs for using AI without outsourcing thinking
- Case‑reading and problem‑solving methods that scale beyond school
- Plain‑language explanations of concepts people are often expected to “just know”
These resources are designed to help people build skills they can use in school, in practice, and in everyday professional life.
Resources for Educators
A significant part of The Classroom is designed for educators, especially those trying to teach clarity, judgment, and AI literacy without turning their courses into tool demos.
Over time, educators will find teaching modules, sample assignments and rubrics, and practical guidance for building AI literacy in the classroom. Resources will focus on designing assignments that surface judgment, structuring AI use without shortcutting learning, and integrating AI into decisionmaking in ways that strengthen thinking rather than weaken it.
The goal isn’t to prescribe how anyone should teach. It is to make teaching clearer, easier, and more aligned with how people actually learn.
A Living Classroom
Nothing here is static. Posts will evolve as new research emerges – and as I learn and test new methods. Others will expand based on questions from students, colleagues, and readers. New topics will appear as I build tools like my AI Property Law Tutor and study how people interact with AI in real settings.
Whether you’re here for a quick idea that makes tomorrow’s writing better or a deeper piece that reshapes how you think about learning, my hope is that The Classroom becomes a place you return to because it feels useful, honest, and human.
