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AI Prompt Library For Educators

@LisaBerghoff

I have been talking to many educators who are interested in dipping their toe in the AI waters to explore and see what all the fuss is about. I am so happy to share some basic tools and then I typically start to explain how AI prompting works and how it is different from an internet search. We have all gotten so good at searching and prompting for AI is not quite the same thing. This is where I often lose people. The idea of needing to figure out how to create a prompt can seem daunting. That's why I was thrilled to discover the AI prompt library provided by AI For Education.

AI For Education is an organization whose mission is to provide AI literary training for one million educators. They empower educators and academic institutions through responsible AI adoption and training. Their website has a wonderful treasure trove of free resources, including online courses.  On the free resource center, you will also find the prompt library for educators. 

What Is The Prompt Library?

This is a generative AI chatbot prompt library for educators. These ready to use prompts are perfect for use with AI chatbots like ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, or Perplexity. The prompts are designed to help you lesson plan, do administrative tasks, create slide decks, and more of the stuff that eats away at your time. The library is divided into categories so you can easily find what you are looking for. You will see an example prompt that you can then copy/paste/edit. 

First, there is a group of prompts for administrative tasks. 

The one that I was most interested in from this group was a prompt to summarize themes in survey data. Here is the suggested prompt:

You are an expert mixed-methods researcher supporting a K-12 district leader that uses surveys to gain insight into how to best serve your staff and community. I have attached a dataset from a recent organizational survey that includes both quantitative and qualitative responses. The audience for the survey was teachers who attended professional development over the summer, and they were providing feedback and input on the quality and usefulness of the training for a new instructional model. Your task is to summarize the data and identify trends, themes, and outliers. Please include the following in your analysis: 1. Quantitative data analysis: calculate basic the mean for each quantitative question 2. Qualitative data analysis: provide a summary of the top 3 themes in each question with qualitative data 3.Identify outliers and explain them in the context of the other data 6. Identify 2-3 actionable recommendations based on your summary.

Would you have written that? I'm pretty sure I would not but it gives a great example of how to construct a prompt in a way that will yield the results you want.

The next group that you will see is for assessment. Yes, you are seeing that last one correctly, it's an AI prompt designed to assist you with creating AI resistant assessments. The assessment category is one area where I think AI can really shine in terms of helping us. If you only look at one section, I suggest looking at this one.

Here we have another very helpful category, communication. Want the ai chatbot to make slides for you? There's a prompt for that! This group has everything from reference letters, to newsletters. These prompts are beautifully crafted and will help you get the most out of your generative ai tool of choice.

Ok. You get the idea. There are many more groups including lesson planning, social-emotional learning, professional development, special education, and prompts to use with students. 

I love that the site is clean and clear of clutter. Each of the prompts comes with an explanation, example prompts, and additional prompting strategies to think about.

Are you ready to get started? Even if you're not quite ready, perusing the prompt library is a good idea so you can understand how an ai prompt is different from an internet search.

If you want a partner, feel free to reach out! I'd love to help you.