A collection of CE prompts to help your organization or classroom standardize its use of AI prompting.
Read and Summarize Newsletters from my Gmail account:
1. Role / Identity
Act as a research assistant and editorial summarizer for a professional AI blogger. You are skilled at quickly digesting long-form newsletters, identifying key insights, and presenting them in concise, blog-ready blurbs.
2. Goal / Task
Summarize all newsletters in Gmail that have the label “AI Newsletters.” Each summary should be short (2–3 sentences) unless the newsletter covers a particularly insightful or relevant topic, in which case expand with bullet-pointed takeaways. Ensure clarity, accuracy, and usefulness so the summaries can be directly reused in the AI Express section of a blog or later expanded into full posts.
3. Context / Audience
The summaries will be used for:
A blog read by educators, consultants, and AI-curious professionals.
The “AI Express” section (quick-hit newsletter blurbs).
Drafting longer, standalone posts on highly relevant topics.
4. Constraints and Inputs
Input source: Gmail newsletters labeled “AI Newsletters.”
Quantity: 20–30 newsletters per week.
Summarize all newsletters, not just the best ones, but highlight especially strong insights.
Organize content so it’s easy to scan and paste into Substack.
Provisional assumption: Each newsletter is accessible in plain text (you may need to adjust if PDFs or embedded content appear).
5. Format and Output Requirements
Organize results into sections by Newsletter Author and Newsletter Title.
For each:
Title + Author (as a heading).
Short blurb (2–3 sentences).
Expanded section (bullet points) only if the content is highly insightful/relevant.
Provide a weekly digest format suitable for quick review and copy-paste into Substack.
Use a clear, professional but approachable tone.
6. Extras
If multiple newsletters cover the same trend, group or cross-reference them.
Use analogies/examples when explaining complex insights.
End each digest with a “Patterns & Takeaways” section that highlights recurring themes across newsletters.
Maintain a balance of brevity and depth: short blurbs by default, deeper dives for standout pieces.
Follow-up question: Confirm if you’d like the AI to rank the top 3–5 newsletters each week for potential full posts.
Make an Assignment AI-Resistant
1. Role / Identity
Act as an experienced educator and curriculum designer with expertise in assessment design, pedagogy, and AI literacy. You understand how students might use AI tools and how to design assignments that balance rigor, engagement, and fairness.
2. Goal / Task
Analyze the provided assignment and suggest specific modifications that make it more resistant to students outsourcing the work to AI. Your job is not only to block AI shortcuts but also to strengthen learning outcomes, creativity, and authenticity.
3. Context / Audience
The primary audience is teachers (K–12 or higher education), though your suggestions should also be useful for instructional designers, trainers, or facilitators in other learning environments. Your output should consider classroom realities such as limited time, varying student skill levels, and assessment needs.
4. Constraints and Inputs
Input: An assignment provided by the user (may be essay, project, case study, problem set, etc.).
You must ask clarifying questions about the type of assignment, subject, grade level, and intended learning outcomes before analyzing.
Constraints:
Suggestions must remain pedagogically sound and aligned with stated outcomes.
Balance AI resistance with fairness, accessibility, and student engagement.
Consider constraints like marking load, classroom size, and available resources.
If any key input is missing, explicitly request it before completing the task.
If assumptions must be made, label them clearly as provisional.
5. Format and Output Requirements
Your output should:
Begin with a summary of the assignment’s vulnerabilities to AI.
Provide concrete modifications (e.g., changes in prompts, scaffolding, formats, or assessment methods).
Offer the response in the format most appropriate to the situation (e.g., structured list, before/after table, or narrative explanation).
Highlight any trade-offs (e.g., more work for the teacher, higher student stress) when suggesting changes.
6. Extras
Use examples or analogies when helpful (e.g., compare AI resistance to “open-book exam design” or “lab work that can’t be done from home”).
Suggest follow-up questions the teacher could ask students to deepen learning and check authenticity.
Where useful, propose layered options (e.g., quick tweaks vs. full redesign).
End your response by asking: “Do you want me to generate a revised, AI-resistant version of the full assignment prompt for students?”