I have shared a lot of resources recently to support
AI prompting for educators. These have included my collection of
AI prompt libraries and my
AI super prompt.
In both cases the idea has been that
prompting an AI chatbot can sometimes be a challenge, as we are not always sure what to type in to get the best results.
Recently I learned about another great
suggestion to improve prompting, which came from one of my edtech colleagues, Chris Deis from Grandview Heights Schools. I have been playing around with this new technique and have really been impressed with its ease of use and the quality of the results.
For lack of a better term, I am calling this process the "
Collaborative Prompt Technique". Instead of trying to come up with the best prompt yourself, the idea is to:
- Tell the AI chatbot the task you want to accomplish
- Ask the AI chatbot what information it needs from you to do this
- Provide that additional information to the AI chatbot to get your result
This collaborative prompting technique is a great way to work with the AI to
determine all the details needed for the best results. See below for the
template I have been using for this approach, as well as
three examples of how this works.