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The Magic of a Good Prompt: Help Youth Unlock AI Creatively and Critically
The Magic of a Good Prompt: Help Youth Unlock AI Creatively and Critically
Content
This activity introduces youth workers to prompt engineering as a key digital literacy.
Using free tools like littlemissdata.com, aiforeducation.io, youth workers explore how crafting better AI prompts helps young people think more clearly, express ideas creatively, and use emerging technologies responsibly.
Prompting is not just about using AI tools — it's about teaching youth how to ask better questions, frame their needs, and shape the outputs they want from technology.
By completing this activity, you will
- Understand what makes a prompt effective or ineffective.
- Learn how to use AI tools to support creativity, communication, and youth voice.
- Help young people develop confidence and critical awareness when engaging with AI.
Get inspired
Visit the following websites:
Explore their prompt library.
Try one or two prompts under categories like “Creativity”, “Communication”, or “Identity”.
Watch the short introduction video: “The Step-by-Step master class on writing better prompts than 99% of people” by Enovair.
Take action: activities for different roles
Youth workers:
- Try 2–3 different prompts on aiforeducation.io. Note how slight changes affect the response.
- Craft your own creative or reflective prompt and test it with an AI tool (e.g., ChatGPT, Copilot).
- Facilitate a session where youth experiment with prompts and compare outcomes.
Youth organisations:
- Develop a digital literacy session focused on AI tools and prompt awareness.
- Encourage teams to co-create a youth-centered prompt library (e.g. prompts for storytelling, event planning, community reflection).
- Integrate prompt-based activities into your media, career, or civic programs.
Young people:
- Use an AI tool with a creative or expressive prompt (e.g., poem about your neighborhood, advice to your future self).
- Reflect: What surprised you? What felt useful? What felt off or biased?
- Challenge yourself: Can you improve the prompt to get a better result?
Suggested follow-up activities
- Organize a “Prompt Lab” where youth test creative, funny, or meaningful prompts.
- Create a zine or blog post featuring “Best of AI responses” and the prompts that triggered them.
- Combine prompt work with digital ethics discussions: Who trains the AI? Whose voice does it reflect?
Who created this resource?
This activity was developed by the Digital Systemic partnership as part of the Erasmus+ project Systemic Development of Digital Youth Work, in collaboration with the Cities of Learning Network.
Pridobite značko aktivnosti
The Magic of a Good Prompt: Help Youth Unlock AI Pridobi to značko
Skills and experiences gained
- Critical thinking and digital fluency
- AI literacy and awareness
- Communication and expression
- Responsible technology use
- Curiosity and creativity
Naloge
Naloga št.1
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Use a prompt from aiforeducation.io or one you create. Share the result and explain why it worked or how you’d improve it.
Naloga št.2
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Reflect on how prompt-based AI tools can support or challenge youth expression. What would you include in a youth AI session?
Veščine
ESCO
#načela umetne inteligence
#Odlična raven. Opolnomoči skupine mladih, da uporabijo svoje kritično mišljenje in domišljijo ter razpravljajo o etičnih posledicah in najdejo rešitve za vprašanja, kot so profiliranje, algoritemsko filtriranje ali algoritemska pristranskost.
#Dobra raven. Mladim pomaga razumeti razliko med dejstvi in napačnimi/lažnimi informacijami ter na splošno kritično analizirati informacije.
#Dobra raven. Skupaj z mladimi določi izobraževalne cilje za lastno produkcijo digitalnih vsebin
#Zadovoljiva raven. Podpira mlade pri učenju socialnih veščin s sodelovanjem v digitalnih skupnostih, kot so diskusijske skupine, strani za življenjski slog, vlogi ali igre.
#Odlična raven. Razvija sposobnost spodbujanja inovativnega duha pri digitalnih dejavnostih mladinskega dela; namerno posodablja kompetence na tem področju in se zaveda trendov ter tudi politik na tem področju.
#Odlična raven. Samozavestna uporaba različnih digitalnih orodij in platform za podporo mladinskega dela in zagotavljanje storitev mladinskega dela (npr. napredna tehnološka oprema, digitalne kamere ali programska oprema, orodja umetne inteligence)
Organizatorji
Digital Youth Work Resource Hub
Badgecraft vodi spletno infrastrukturo za mesta in regije učenja in jo razvija skupaj z vodilnimi izobraževalnimi organizacijami. Evropski konzorcij razvija to platformo s pomočjo sofinanciranja programa Evropske unije Erasmus+. Kontaktirajte support@badgecraft.eu.
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