FTPO 5.6 Prompting Strategies

Want better results from AI tools? In this episode of For the Purpose of…, Kent ISD (Kent Intermediate School District) Educational Technology (EdTech) Consultants Sarah Wood, Katherine Fredrickson, and Keith Tramper share six artificial intelligence (AI) prompting strategies educators can use right away. Drawing from Keith's Promptober professional learning series, they explain what prompt engineering is, why it matters for teachers, and how to get stronger output from tools like Gemini, ChatGPT, Claude, and MagicSchool. In this episode, you will learn: The four parts of a strong prompt: task, role, context, and format How prompting frameworks like PREPARE, REFINE (Dr. Catlin Tucker), and SPARK (Dr. Sabba Quidwai) help structure your prompts How grounding in Gemini Notebook (formerly NotebookLM) reduces hallucinations and bias How to use media swapping and compendiums to build a reliable knowledge base How metaprompting helps AI write better prompts for you How adversarial review and app smashing combine AI tools for stronger results Chapters 0:00 Welcome and introductions 0:46 What is prompt engineering? 2:39 Say What You See prompting game 8:37 Four parts of a strong prompt 12:32 Prompting frameworks: PREPARE, REFINE, and SPARK 15:42 Grounding with Gemini Notebook 18:03 Media swapping and compendiums 23:35 Metaprompting 27:05 Adversarial review and app smashing 28:37 Learn more about Promptober 29:27 Episode recap 30:37 Golden nuggets and closing Audio description note: In the Say What You See segment, the hosts are prompted to guess three AI-generated images: a lime-green, yellow, and pink gradient; a large royal blue circle on a white background; and an iridescent green beetle on a dangling strawberry with small strawberries in the background. Earn State Continuing Education Clock Hours (SCECHs) If you watched the recording or listened to the podcast, you can still earn SCECHs by completing the form below. SCECH form for this episode: https://sites.google.com/kentisd.org/... Explore the Promptober course: iamed.tech/promptober26 Listen to more episodes on Podcast PDx: https://sites.google.com/kentisd.org/... Questions or ideas? Email the Kent ISD EdTech team at edtech@kisd.org This podcast is produced by Keith Tramper, Sarah Wood, and Katherine Fredrickson as a service for kindergarten through grade 12 (K-12) educators. This episode was edited by Keith Tramper. Theme music is Neon Nights by Scott Holmes, from the Free Music Archive (FMA). #AIinEducation #PromptEngineering #EdTech