Now that everyone has calmed down the ChatGPT moral panic, and started thinking about ways to actually use it–and teach students to use it meaningfully and ethically–I’ve seen a lot of guides floating on the internets giving ideas for prompts. I even created a couple of those myself for students and for teachers.
These are fine for giving people ideas for ways to use the tools. However…
Everything indicates prompt engineering–writing prompts that get the results you want–is going to be the new literacy. When the IB finally started responding to the release of ChatGPT–and everyone wondering how this was going to impact the Extended Essay, among other things– they said that in the future they can see that, rather than writing an essay, future exams might involve evaluating an flawed essay, then engineering the prompt to fix it.
These [new skills] include having the ability to evaluate AI-produced essays and the ability to refine the questions being asked of the bot. A common theme in comments about ChatGPT at the moment is the need to explore asking the right question for the answer you want.
With that in mind, I wanted something that actually guided students on how to write their own prompts, rather than just giving them prompts to use. So I made it.
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