Generative AI for Educators: AI Literacy & Prompting Skills

Overzicht

Learn how to harness the power of generative AI whilst retaining complete professional control in the classroom. This comprehensive course equips educators with essential AI literacy skills and the ability to strategically and effectively prompt AI models without compromising pedagogical expertise.

Learn to leverage AI as a powerful assistant for lesson planning, assessment design, and resource creation while you remain the ultimate decision-maker in all educational contexts. Discover how to craft effective prompts that generate meaningful educational content, evaluate AI outputs critically, and integrate AI tools strategically into your teaching workflow.

Through hands-on activities and real-world applications, you'll develop the confidence to harness AI's capabilities for brainstorming, planning, and differentiated instruction while understanding its limitations and ethical implications. Balance innovation with educational integrity become an educator who integrates AI-enhanced teaching with their professional knowledge and expertise.

Lesprogramma

• What is AI literacy?
This module introduces the fundamental concept of AI literacy, exploring what it means to be literate in the age of artificial intelligence. Through a series of engaging activities and tasks, you will develop a foundational understanding of AI's role and implications in education.
• Building AI Literacy
This module expands on what it means to be AI literate, unpacking it into three components of knowledge: technical, practical, and ethical.
• Large Language Models (LLMs) and AI Tools
This module commences your journey of interacting with AI tools. You will learn about the difference between AI models, tools, and types.
• Effective AI prompting
This module unpacks the art and science of effective AI prompting, a crucial skill for interacting with and leveraging artificial intelligence. You will learn strategies and techniques to craft clear, concise, and impactful prompts that yield desired outcomes from AI models, enhancing your ability to utilise AI as a powerful tool.

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Gegeven door

Dr. Jodie Torrington and Dr. Brian Ballsun-Stanton

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Vakgebieden

Artificial Intelligence