AI for Education (Basic)

This course introduces generative artificial intelligence (gen-AI) concepts and prompt engineering methods that can be scaled to multiple levels of educational contexts. It provides straightforward and practical definitions, scenarios, and prompt engineering methods with real-time demonstrations in diverse educational learning environments. Participants will be provided tested methods for prompting an AI Assistant, such as GPT, Claude, and Gemini to yield useful, relevant, accurate, and ethical outputs. Learners will gain a clear understanding of how to collaborate with an AI Assistant and how to encourage students to do so in ethical ways. Knowing how to describe and collaborate with AI Assistants effectively and rhetorically is a vital skillset to successfully engage with students in all types of learning environments, from secondary to college levels. This course is a beginning step in learning these skills.