Educators experimenting with AI often find that looking at others’ prompts helps us learn prompting strategies and get ideas for ways we may want to invite students to use AI. This workshop examines examples of educational prompt development, focusing on two cases: Mike Caulfield’s SIFT Toolbox, which incorporates critical thinking principles into AI prompts, and the PAIRR feedback prompt developed by California educators to support linguistic justice and student agency in writing. These examples illustrate how strategies like role assignments, step-by-step reasoning, examples, and conditional statements can help us nudge AI to respond in ways consistent with our pedagogical goals and approach.
We’ll also take time for participants to browse a curated list of educational prompt libraries, discuss prompts related to their own teaching contexts, and share current experiments or ideas they’re considering. By sharing our trials and observations about AI prompting, we can learn from each other and make better decisions about pedagogical applications.
Session duration: 1 hour
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Session Resources
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