The Network for Educational Development (NED) provides educational development opportunities that are designed by Minnesota State faculty and staff for Minnesota State faculty and staff. These opportunities help build awareness, develop knowledge, skills, and abilities, and provide space for reflecting and revising.
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Build Your RAFT: AI Prompt Engineering for Educators
Ready to explore how AI prompt engineering can enhance teaching and learning? In this interactive session, we’ll introduce RAFT, a flexible prompt engineering framework that supports thoughtful engagement with AI. You’ll learn how to craft more effective prompts, understand what AI agents are (and aren’t) good for, and explore how to use them as thought partners in curriculum development, feedback generation, student support, and beyond. Whether you’re just beginning to “build your raft” or ready for “whitewater rafting”, you’ll leave with practical strategies to elevate your AI fluency and apply it meaningfully in your academic practice.
Essential Objectives
Participants will:
- Define RAFT elements: Role, Audience, Format, and Topic
- Review existing AI prompt engineering frameworks, highlighting RAFT
- Apply the RAFT AI Prompt Engineering framework using CoPilot
Enhancing Objectives
Participants will:
- Share examples of how teaching RAFT to students might be beneficial
- Affirm that CoPilot has AI Agents that can create ongoing customized prompts +
- Explore how this might benefit teachers and learners
- Recognize that they have access to CoPilot
- Determine if a prompt is emerging, progressing, or competent using the RAFT framework
Accommodations
The NED is committed to providing universal access to all of our events, we’d like to discover how we can make the event more inclusive so you can fully participate!
Machine generated captions are available in real-time for all Zoom events, however human generated CART (live caption) service and ASL interpretation can be requested with advanced notice (2 weeks) to make the event more accessible.
Please, let us know of any disability-related accommodations that will facilitate your full participation.
Questions?
Contact the Network for Educational Development.
Registration Required
Use the RSVP tool below to register. In addition to Minnesota State faculty and staff, Concurrent Enrollment instructors are also welcome to join.
After registering, a calendar invite with details on how to join will be sent to you, please add this event to your calendar.
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