Summary:
This blog post is part of a series aimed at helping educators harness the power of AI through effective prompt engineering. Generative AI can tailor backstories to fit the specific needs and interests of different student groups, making the learning experience more relevant and personalized. Additionally, AI serves as a source of inspiration, offering new ideas and perspectives that professors might not have considered, thereby enriching the overall educational experience. You can use any Generative AI App. I’m using Microsoft Copilot (Opens in a new tab). Type, Copy/Paste the prompts below and review the results.
Prompt 1a: Case Stories
Help me create a relatable fictional story about how a help desk used Generative AI to improve customer service. What more information would you like me to provide?
(Note: This example provides a question prompt from the Generative AI source to ask you more questions to help shape the storyline.)
Prompt 1b: Giving feedback
Can you shorten it by 1/3.
(Note: you can provide parameters to shorten, elongate content as well.)
Prompt 1c: Hashtags
Can you give me five hashtags based on the story?
Prompt 2a: Language Studies
I’m covering some new ground this semester in a SUNY Higher Education Spanish I course for undergraduates that I teach. I’d like a lesson plan about how AI can help students learn material quicker. The unit this week is conversations. Can you write me a lesson plan on how I can show students how AI can help them be better conversationists in Spanish?
Prompt 3a: Civility
I’d like to have a statement about civility in my syllabus. There is a little bit of tension on campus due to world affairs. I’m a Calculus professor; this is not my main area of study; so, I could use some help in drafting a statement that is most understandable to all student demographics. Could you make it about a paragraph?