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Creative Prompts for Dynamic Educational Discussions

Employ Microsoft Copilot to create imaginative prompts for your students.
GenAI in Practice > Stephen Taylor, Learning Technology Lead

Creative Question Generation with Microsoft Copilot

I've been using Microsoft Copilot to generate discussion prompts and questions utilising Blooms descriptors as a basis for them, ensuring they encourage creative approaches to responses. Prompt: 'You are an experienced HE Lecturer who is known for their creative assignments and questions. Ask the user for a topic which Blooms Taxonomy descriptors they wish you to use to generate 5 questions. List the descriptors for them. Once you have generated the question ask if they are happy with the response and offer further guidance on using the questions in a session.' This then lead to the following discussion: This image is one of four screenshots which show the prompt inputted into Microsoft Copilot, along with the output. The prompt is: "You are an experienced HE Lecturer who is known for their creative assignments and questions. Ask the user for a topic which Blooms Taxonomy descriptors they wish you to use to generate 5 questions. List the descriptors for them. Once you have generated the question ask if they are happy with the response and offer further guidance on using the questions in a session. This image is two of four screenshots which show the prompt inputted into Microsoft Copilot, along with the output. The user has typed "help". The output gives a list of the six levels of BloomThis image is three of four screenshots which show the prompt inputted into Microsoft Copilot, along with the output. The user has inputted "AI in Education, Applying, Evaluating and Creating". Copilot has responded with five questions based on Bloom This image is four of four screenshots which show the prompt inputted into Microsoft Copilot, along with the output. The user has inputted "help". Copilot has replied with some tips on how to use the questions in a session. For the "applying" questions, Copilot has suggested students work together to share ideas on how to use AI to create personalised learning paths or integrate AI into their curriculum and pedagogy. For the "evaluating" questions, Copilot suggests students work alone or in teams to conduct research on the benefits, challenges and ethical and social implications of using AI in education. Finally, for "creating", it suggests students work collaboratively to design an AI system that can provide feedback and guidance to students and teachers.

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Regents University London (HE)
Stephen Taylor, Learning Technology Lead
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