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AI education should shift focus from prompting to student agency

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The role of prompting in AI education is diminishing as chatbots become more adept at inferring user intent, according to an essay by Mark Carrigan. He argues that focusing on "prompt engineering" presents an unhelpful view of AI as a natural language coding interface, hindering deeper learning. Instead, educators should prioritize student agency and a dialogical approach, treating AI as a conversational partner rather than a tool for passive information retrieval. This shift aligns with research suggesting that maintaining control over goals and evaluations can mitigate cognitive atrophy and promote more effective learning. AI

IMPACT Suggests a shift in AI education pedagogy away from prompt engineering towards fostering student agency and dialogical interaction with AI.

RANK_REASON Opinion piece discussing pedagogical approaches to AI.

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AI education should shift focus from prompting to student agency

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    Why prompting should not be our focus when teaching students about AI This is a sketch of a much longer piece of work I need to write: The role of prompting is

    Why prompting should not be our focus when teaching students about AI This is a sketch of a much longer piece of work I need to write: The role of prompting is diminishing is diminishing as chatbots develop because they increasingly infer and pre-empt what the user shares. It’s n…

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