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2.2 | Learn It | Strategies for Prompting AI

 

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Now that you’ve had the opportunity to use AI in the previous module, in this first video, Dr. Todd Cherner from School of Education will provide you with a 3-step approach for prompting AI in the form of Large Language Models to produce your desired results.
After watching the video, choose one or more of the videos below, to see strategies that can be used to prompt in additional ways that include:
  • Academic reasons by Dr. Dana Riger from the School of Education
  • Scholarly work including research and innovation by Dr. Maggie Melo from the School of Information and Library Sciences
  • Productivity purposes by Assistant Director Chelsea Donahue from the Kenan Institute

3-Step Approach for Prompting AI as Large Language Models

Downloadable Word transcript of Todd Cherner – 3-Step Approach to Prompting Large Language Models video

Are you interested in using a tool to help you with prompting? Try this AI Prompt Generator, as it will provide you a scaffold for drafting prompts. 

Recapping the 3-Step Approach: 

Step 0 | Selecting AI: Choose an AI tool that will generate content in the format you want. For a list of tools, see the AI Tool Links page

Step 1 | Role: State the role that the AI will take (e.g., You are a professor preparing to teach a course on organizational management)

Step 2 | Input: Starting with a verb, describe a specific action you want the AI to complete and remember to include descriptors to fully contextualize the action (e.g., Outline and describe key principles that managers can use for supporting employees)

Step 3 | Output: Draw from the following parameters to help ensure the content generated by the AI meets your needs. (e.g., For each principle, explain it 100 words using a professional, informative tone, and list each principle as a bullet point)

  • Length: Clarify how long or short should the response be. Use word count, number of paragraphs, or another metric to clarify expectations.
  • Audience: State who the attended receivers of the information will be. Name the group of people, and examples include graduate students, novices, moviegoers, and more!
  • Style/Tone: Explain if you want the response to be informative, persuasive, or entertaining. In addition, the response can be casual, formal, suspenseful, humorous, or something else.
  • Format: The structure of the response, such as essay, procedures, outline, email, blog, etc.

Choose one or more of the following videos to view.

Prompting AI for Teaching Use

Downloadable Word transcript of Dana Riger – Prompting AI for Teaching Use video

Prompting AI for Scholarly and Research Purposes

Downloadable Word transcript of Maggie Melo – Prompting AI for Scholarly and Research Purposes video

Prompting AI for Productivity Purposes

Downloadable Word transcript of Chelsea Donahue – Prompting AI for Productivity video

 

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