# Teaching Notes

## User preferences
- Wants glossary as primary learning artifact — terminology first, then practice
- Learning for practical communication, not theory for its own sake
- Short, actionable lessons preferred
- Wants concrete examples — show the thing, not just describe it. Live demos, side-by-side before/after, real Holistics scenarios. Avoid pure prose definitions.
- Do not use em-dashes (—) as text separators in any teaching material (lessons, glossary, flashcards, notes). Use parentheses, colons, periods, or commas instead. Applies to all future content.
- AI writing principle: AI is for scaffolding (outline, brainstorm, draft, critique, fact-check, copy-edit). Final prose must be the writer's own words. Over-reliance on AI to produce final text is considered impolite — it signals to the reader that the writer didn't care enough to think. The eight tells from Lesson 0008 are symptoms; the real principle is process discipline, not output disguise. When teaching about AI in writing, frame as ethics + workflow, not as detection.
- After creating or renaming any lesson, reference, exercise, or learning-record file, run `node scripts/build-index.mjs` so `index.html` stays the central file finder.