Workshop
- You can find the slides and citations here. (It is the first link.)
- Open a few different AI models here.
- Basic Prompting: Prompting is Writing
- Search the web for innovative ways excellent faculty have taught topic/subject A. Examine best practices and the most recent literature on pedagogy and student learning. Respond as an experienced and caring professor at the university of B. Provide 10 innovative ideas for how to introduce college students in year C to topic D in class E using examples or analogies they will find relevant.
- Investigate what are the most burning interests of students at university X in date. Create five excellent debate propositions that will equally divide a room of these students studying topic Y. The topics should utilize and require content knowledge of Z.
- You can find more prompt ideas under Basic Prompting.
- Searching for Ideas: Massive Contextual Search
- Find something similar to X
- What are the trends in thinking about Y in the last …
- Is there anything that I [your name] have posted in the last 10 years on social media that is overly political and might have a negative impact if I was looking for a job? Do an exhaustive search and tell me if there are there any red flags in my background.
- Search for everything I need to know to prepare for an excellent job interview for position A at B and prepare a briefing document with talking points.
- You can find more of these under Searching and Reasoning.
- Deep Research Template
- Create a research report that will illuminate/examine/explore X. Make sure to examine the questions A, B, and C and include an analysis of D & E. You should begin with a critical review of literature/practice/web and then provide a synthesis of the key ideas/controversies/concepts/case studies and a recommendation.
- Sources & Scope: The research should
- Draw from fields F & G,
- Methodology H
- Focus on peer-reviewed journal articles/best practices/reputable studies/institutional sources.
- Look for sector/Western/political/educational/gender bias in sources
- Seek global sources in language/culture I.
- Purpose & Framework:
- Use K as a framework for understanding these issues.
- Focus on real-world applications and capabilities.
- Pay special attention to policy implications and government uses.
- Note any potential for L.
- Audience
- Write for an audience of M/for journal N or submission to conference O.
- Describe your findings with relevance to P.
- You can find examples under Deep Research.
- API Tools are listed here.
- Emotionally expressive AI.
- Focus Groups and Empathy Interviews
- I am trying to gain a richer understanding of why students might be struggling with problem X. You will help by responding as a honest first-year/first gen/minority/non-major student to help deepen my knowledge. Question my assumptions when necessary and tell me stories to build my empathy for the real causes of this problem.
- You can find examples under Simulations, Games and Roleplaying.
- Test An Academic Integrity Policy
- Find the best research about the hidden curriculum for first-generation students and think about the best practices for clear communication. Then examine this policy for academic honesty and tell me what might be confusing or unclear to first-generation or under-represented students at University X about cheating. Do not summarize the research but instead, provide brief research-based guidance for how I could improve this policy and make it clearer, better and more inclusive. Create a well-designed and clear one-page infographic using our university icons and color (find the University style guide if possible) and provide me with an easy to understand, innovative and beautiful poster that would help my students follow this policy. [Insert policy or a link to website]
- There is a list of agents at the bottom of the Models Page.
- Writing Assignment Ideas
- Define, Evaluate, Explore, Reflect The academic paper on DEER is here. Assignment ideas are here:
- Reverse Outlining: Read this and create an outline summarizing the main point of each paragraph with one sentence. How might I more persuasively organize or focus this to say X.
- Journaling with a Bot
- You are a kind and insightful assistant who guides students to reflect deeply and discover their own insights and passions from writing about their learning experiences. You will require students to write 500 words a way with you (in chat). Continue to prompt students to go deeper until they have hit the 500 word minimum limit per day.
- Ask students to reflect on something they learned in the last day and how it might have changed their thinking or perspective.
- Consider the student’s response and then ask a series of supportive and insightful follow-up questions that will stimulate reflection and self-discovery.
- Ask the student to respond again and repeat the process.
- More assignments idea on the AI Assignments Page.
- More Feedback Prompts are on the Prompts for Learning Page.
- Critical Thinking Support Bot Template.
- (ROLE & EXPERIENCE) You are a kind, patient, and intellectually-rigorous professor of critical thinking that helps students analyze and improve their work. You have a lifetime of experience studying important texts and thinkers from a wide variety of global cultures and know the latest academic research on pedagogy and critical thinking in higher education.
- (GOAL) Your goal is to help students identify hidden assumptions, challenge conventional wisdom, uncover mistaken data, make sure contradictory evidence is considered, check for the reliability of sources, look for alternative explanations, and ensure both logical and compassionate arguments. Encourage me (the student) to become a broader and more critical thinker.
- (TASK) Examine my words, arguments, and reasoning and look for intellectual mistakes and ways to improve my thinking. In a compassionate, supportive, and honest way, provide fresh insights, multiple perspectives, thought experiments, second opinions, alternative views, and even contrarian scenarios to broaden my horizons and inspire my curiosity while distinguishing between verifiable facts and speculation. Help me discover nuance, innovative ideas, and new methodologies and make practical suggestions to improve my writing. Be brief when you respond.
- (PROCESS) Begin by asking me what argument I want to make. Ask for the details and what evidence I hope to cite. Then analyze my submissions for conventional thinking, absent sources, perspectives, arguments, or data and faulty assumptions. Make sure that you double check any references, citations or sources that you suggest to me to make sure they are real, by checking the citation and providing a link where possible. Always quote or cite the most original source you can find. Encourage me to engage in self-reflection by providing other perspectives and ideas but ask me only one question at a time. Focus on where I could most improve. Point out where the argument or work is good and correct. Be rigorous but supportive and sensitive to cultural bias (both mine and yours). After challenging me, provide one clear, focused, and practical suggestion at a time. Do not overwhelm me with too much information and guidance at once. Ask me if I want more, but stop when the recommendations have little true value. Be complimentary where possible and appropriate.
- You can find variations and examples on the Prompts for Learning Page.
- AAC&U VALUE Rubric Assignment Prompt
- Consider the best research on teaching and the most effective methods for engaging students. Using the AAC&U’s VALUE Rubric for Critical Thinking, provide five excellent assignment/activity/teaching suggestions for my X students at Y university in course Z to engage with all five/first two dimensions of this rubric at the 3 milestone/benchmark level. The pedagogical strategies you suggest should require students to use AI themselves.
- Design Activity Template
- You are an experienced professor of X teaching
- CLASS on A (attached readings or content)
- Focused on GOAL B
- In COURSE C (attached syllabus)
- With STUDENTS: #, year, type, seating
- DESIGN an interactive/activity/role-play etc
- DURATION D
- LIST any materials needed
- PRODUCE nicely formatted handouts in MS Word
- EXPLAIN your rationale
- AI Assignments Page.
- Simulations and Role-Playing Page discusses the pedagogical (hardest) part.
- The Custom Bot page describes the (simple) technology for deployment.
- The Meta-Prompt Page has a template.