Basic Prompt Design Workshop

Rationale

This basic prompt design workshop follows the old proverb: “Show me and I may remember. Involve me and I will understand. Let me do it and I will master it.”

• First, we will show you how an AI assistant or Writing Partner works in the context of online writing, reading, and discussion.
• Then we will involve you in reading the prompt or script we created to make that Writing Partner work the way it does. We will go behind the scenes, read the script aloud, and explain why we wrote what we did.
• Finally, we will guide you through four steps where you will make a Writing Partner yourself by scripting a persona, purpose, process, and product for your AI assistant.

What better way to learn than by doing? In this workshop, you will start or continue on a path that can lead toward mastery in prompt design.

Writing into the Workshop 

Prompts for starting (Choose one or give options.):

• Imagine that you will have another teacher in the room with you in the coming semester. What do you want this educator to be like? What motivates them? What do you want them to do? What might this look like and sound like?
• Make a list of the five biggest challenges you face with learning, especially when it comes to reading, writing, and communicating. What are the five most persistant, multi-layered, important learning issues you face right now?

Have participants turn and share this writing with each other and hear some in the whole group. Listen for how the Writing Partner that you are about to show addresses some aspect of what you are hearing in this initial writing. Depending on how many examples you are ready to share, you might choose the one that seems most relavent to what you are hearing in the room.

Show

We could demonstrate any of the hundreds of Writing Partners that teachers and students have been scripting since November 2022. 

Squad

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