Becoming a Super Learner: AI in Education (Part 1)

This talk explores AI’s role in personalizing undergraduate learning experiences, empowering graduate research, and revolutionizing teaching methodologies. My thesis is that AI can turn students into ‘Super Learners’ and educators into dynamic facilitators.

The takeaways are actionable strategies to integrate AI into educational practices, unlocking its potential to reshape higher education for all stakeholders.

Prompt Engineering Homework
Before moving to Part 2, the homework is to become familiar with each of these 6 prompts styles we examined.

The six prompts are included in the notes section below the video.

Enter each prompt into your GPT. Make each prompt specific to what you want to learn. Also, if the GPT asks for more details, provide concise answers.

Just Do It
I want to learn _________.

Persona
You are an experienced _______ instructor. I want to learn _________.

Interview Pattern
You are an expert _______ instructor. I want to learn _________. Can you Create a learning schedule of 1-hour daily, Sunday through Thursday, for the next 10-weeks? To start, you can ask me about my current level of knowledge on the topic until you have enough information. Then, you will provide the learning schedule formatted in a table. The column titles will be Week, Day, Learning Outcome, and _________ Concepts. The _________ Concepts column will detail one or more instruction short _________ exercises to teach the concepts.

Chain-of-Thought
You are an expert _______ instructor. I want to learn _________. Break the learning schedule down into small learning increments. Create a learning schedule of 1-hour daily, Sunday through Thursday, for the next 10-weeks. Provide the learning schedule formatted in a table. The column titles will be Week, Day, Learning Outcome, and _________ Concepts. The _________ Concepts column will detail one or more instruction short _________ exercises to teach the concepts.

Tree-of-Thought
Act as three experienced _______ instructors answering this question. Each will write down one step of their thinking, then share it with the group. Then all the instructors will go on to the next step. If any instructor realizes they're wrong at any point then they leave. I want each of you to discuss the creation of a learning schedule of 1-hour daily, Sunday through Thursday, for the next 10-weeks. I want to learn _______ to _______. Could you discuss how to teach me these concepts and provide the full content of the 10-week calendar calendar? Provide the learning schedule formatted in a table. The column titles will be Week, Day, Learning Outcome, and _______ Concepts. The _______ Concepts column will detail one or more short _______ exercises to teach the concepts.

Act-Review-Optimize-Ask
Act as a prompt engineer. Review the following prompt for me. Optimize it to make it better. Ask me any questions that you have to make it better.###I want to learn _______ to build _______. Create a learning schedule of 1-hour daily, Sunday through Thursday, for the next 10-weeks. Provide the learning schedule formatted in a table. The column titles will be Week, Day, Learning Outcome, and _______ Concepts. The _______ Concepts column will detail one or more instruction short _______ exercises to teach the concepts.