Crafting Chat GPT Prompts: A Comprehensive Guide for Effective Lesson Planning

Creating a top-notch prompt for GPT isn’t just about words — it’s about understanding what students really dig, their learning standards, and how they team up. Making chatbot GPT work like a charm means setting goals that sync perfectly with what students are all about. And hey, the “What?How?Why?” framework? It’s your secret sauce for cooking up prompts that really get students diving deep into learning.

What?

To create a prompt, start by defining an objective based on learning standards and student interests.

“Utilize digital tools to enhance visual analysis skills. Build connections between visuals and meaning.”

How?

Define the frameworks and tools expanding professional skillset. Examples: AI text-to-image generators, Procreate, and Miro.

Why?

Use surveys to collect student needs and interest data to form affinity groups.

In a quick survey I ran with the class, I had students drop a link to the artwork, movie, animation, or music video that really spoke to them. Then, I threw in a curveball: I asked them to spill the beans on why they felt that strong connection. The first question clued me to their aesthetics, while the second one gave me a good measure of their pre-requisite knowledge.

1. Combine “what? how? why?” outcomes together in one prompt:

For instance, develop a collaborative digital art lesson sequence for high school students with an affinity for gaming, anime, and Nirvana. Utilize tools such as an AI text-to-image generator, Procreate, and Miro (an online platform for mind map collaboration). The primary objectives involve deep diving into professional online networks to gather inspiration and meaning for digital drawings.

Here is what I got:

Ghatbot GPT: Week 1: Building a Collaborative Community

Day 1–2: Introduction and Shared Interests

• Start with an introduction to the project, emphasizing the importance of community and shared interests.
• Encourage students to share their personal connections to games, anime, and Nirvana and how these interests have influenced their lives.

Day 3–4: Online Associations Research

• Assign each student a specific theme within the three categories (games, anime, Nirvana) to research.
• Using Miro, create a collaborative mind map where students can collectively gather information about these themes.
• Include images, descriptions, and any relevant details about characters, settings, or symbols associated with the themes.

Day 5–7: AI Text-to-Image Generator and Collaboration

• Introduce students to the AI text-to-image generator tool.
• Have students write descriptive sentences or paragraphs related to their chosen themes and use the generator to create visual representations of those descriptions.
• Download and save the generated images and share them with other students.

Week 2: Connecting Interests Through Art

Day 8–9: Idea Development and Collaboration

• Encourage students to collaborate with peers whose interests intersect with their own.
• In Procreate, have them create digital art that combines elements from their shared interests.
• Emphasize the importance of creative dialogue and brainstorming during this process.

Day 10–11: Peer Feedback and Art Integration

• Arrange peer feedback sessions where students share their collaborative work.
• Encourage constructive feedback on how they integrated each other’s interests and how they can improve the fusion of ideas.
• Use Miro to create collaborative mood boards or vision boards that represent the interconnectedness of their interests.

Day 12–14: Finalizing and Presentation

• Instruct students to finalize their collaborative digital art using Procreate.
• Have them present their collaborative artwork in a virtual gallery or through a shared Miro board, highlighting the connections between their interests and their partner’s interests.
• Each student should discuss how they integrated elements from both their interests into the final piece.

Assessment:

• Students will be assessed on their ability to connect their interests with their peers’ interests through collaborative digital art.
• Their final collaborative artwork will be evaluated based on creativity, theme integration, and the strength of the connections between their shared interests.

2. Re-iterate lesson plans for more specific goals and structure:

Give me more specific activities for Day 9, specify collaborative activities in connection with key objective

Here we go! Get a detailed lesson plan as a part of a unit sequence focused on desired objectives and directed by student interests:

Ghat bot: Certainly! Day 9 can be dedicated to specific activities promoting student collaboration and idea development. Here are some more specific activities for Day 9:

Day 9: Idea Development and Collaboration

1. Theme Swap: Pair up students with different interests (e.g., one interested in games and the other in anime) and ask them to list their favorite aspects from each other’s interests. Then, challenge them to incorporate at least one element from their partner’s list into their digital art.
2. Cross-Genre Storytelling: Have students collaborate on creating a short narrative that combines elements from games, anime, and Nirvana’s music lyrics or themes. This narrative can serve as the inspiration for their digital art. Please encourage them to use Miro to outline the story’s key events and characters.
3. Digital Art Relay: Divide students into groups of three, with each student having an interest in either games, anime, or Nirvana. Start with one student in each group creating the initial sketch or concept for a digital artwork related to their interest. After a set time, rotate the digital art to the next student in the group, who continues to build upon it. Rotate until each student has contributed to all three interests.
4. Symbolic Mashup: Ask students to identify symbols or iconic elements from their respective interests (e.g., a game character, an anime logo, Nirvana’s smiley face). Have them create a new, cohesive symbol by combining elements from each interest. This symbol can serve as a central motif in their collaborative artwork.
5. Storyboard Collaboration: If students are interested in storytelling through art, encourage them to create a storyboard that combines elements from games, anime, and Nirvana’s themes. Each student can be responsible for one part of the storyboard, ensuring that the elements from their interest are incorporated. Afterward, they can merge the storyboards into a single narrative.
6. Art Style Fusion: Explore how different art styles are used in games, anime, and Nirvana’s album covers or posters. Ask students to choose a specific art style (e.g., pixel art, anime style, grunge) and create a piece of digital art that combines elements from all three interests while using their chosen art style.
7. Peer Critique and Refinement: After each collaboration activity, have students engage in a peer critique session. They should provide feedback on how effectively their collaborative pieces integrate their interests. Encourage constructive feedback and suggestions for further improvement.

3. Modify each lesson with a GPT chatbot-generated assessment checklist. Read about it in my next post!

Follow the plan and enjoy students’ engagement!