How to Craft an AI Prompt for EDU

Tech Tip Tuesday (February 20, 2024)

I hear about it. How can I use it as a teacher?

Teachers today have a lot on their plates - lesson planning, grading, administrative tasks, communicating with parents and students, and more. It can be overwhelming trying to balance it all. Fortunately, AI Can help alleviate some of those stressors to help teachers work more efficiently.

How?

Many tasks can be easily templated or even completed with the assistance of AI.

One of the key ways that freemium chatbots like ChatGPT or Claude.

Since all these tools require are a chat prompt to get results, creating the exact wording is CRUCIAL to get a desired result.

When crafting your own prompt, think about the following ideas:

1️⃣ Clear Objectives: define precisely what you want it to generate.

2️⃣ Relevance and Authenticity: Relevant to in-class use, whether it's a rubric or real-life scenarios

3️⃣ Specificity: provide who it's for

4️⃣ Scaffolded Support: Who does it need to support?

5️⃣ Variety: Include different modes of instruction or areas you'd like to hit.

Need more?

Check out the graphic from East Maine SD 63's Tech Coaches on how to create your own prompt!

Click the GIF to check it out in full-screen on Canva!

Thank you, East Maine SD 63 Tech Coaches!

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Want something that will help create content and ideas strictly for education?

Diffit

Teachers use Diffit to get "just right" instructional materials, saving tons of time and helping all students to access grade level content

web.diffit.me

Check out their ever-growing list of ways that you can go from prompt to student activities in no time!

List of Diffit Student Activity Templates

Full List of Activities Here is a list of all the Google Slides Student Activities you can export to on Diffit ! At the bottom you can explore by different activity types. Here is how to access thes...

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This week's resource collection comes from the National Education Association and is easily split into K-5, Gr. 6-8, and Gr. 9-12 for easy perusal and use!

If you're commemorating Black History Month in your classroom, consider preparing by reading Learning For Justice's Do's and Don'ts of Teaching Black History and Black History Month is Over. Now What?

Check them out below!

Black History Month Lessons & Resources | NEA

Bring African-American culture & history into your curriculum

nea.org

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For Google's 25th birthday, Google wants students to imagine what their future, or really anything, could look like in their annual Doodle for Google challenge!

Students can create their designs digitally using AR/VR, 3D modeling, hand sculpting, or good old fashioned drawing.

Enter by March 14th.

More info below!