AI Is a Conversation, Not a Search Box
Distinguish prompting from search, supply useful direction and context, and treat the first response as the start of an iterative conversation.
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FORGE: Practical Prompting for Educators
A practical certificate course for educators on creating clear, reusable AI prompts for planning, differentiation, assessment, feedback, communication, and professional thinking while protecting rigor, privacy, accuracy…
FormatSelf-paced
Time195 minutes
Enrollment$4.99
CredentialVerified certificate
Who it is for
Made for decisions educators face now.
This practical learning experience is designed for educators and school teams who need clear, responsible ways to make decisions about AI.
You do not need technical expertise. The focus is sound judgment, learner protection, transparency, and actions you can explain.
Course map
8 modules. A practical learning path.
FORGE Better Prompts
Apply all five FORGE steps: frame the goal, offer context, request a role, give boundaries, and evaluate and evolve the result.
Best Teacher Use Cases
Use AI productively for planning, differentiation, assessment, feedback, communication, and professional thought partnership.
Give AI a Better Job
Assign AI a bounded job such as brainstormer, critic, questioner, organizer, editor, practice generator, or simulator.
Prompt for Rigor, Not Just Convenience
Write prompts that protect student thinking, productive struggle, revision ownership, transfer, and independent demonstration of learning.
Know What AI Is Bad At
Recognize factual limits, verify authoritative sources, inspect bias and missing perspectives, and retain professional judgment.
Privacy and Responsible Prompting
Practice data minimization, avoid unnecessary identifiers, use approved tools appropriately, and retain educator responsibility.
Build Your AI Workflow
Build iterative AI workflows and create a private, downloadable FORGE prompt-design toolkit for real educator tasks.
What learners receive
Practical guidance and verified evidence.
- Self-paced written and video learning
- Scenario-based application and reflection
- A final knowledge assessment
- A publicly verifiable certificate after passing
Research behind this course
Check the foundation directly.
These selected sources fit this course’s audience and purpose. The complete library explains evidence types and limitations.
Official guidance · 2024AI Competency Framework for TeachersUNESCO ↗Official guidance · 2023Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Teaching and LearningU.S. Department of Education ↗Peer-reviewed research · 2025Generative AI Without Guardrails Can Harm LearningProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ↗
Explore the complete verified source library →Written and reviewed byBrannon Fissette, Ed.D., MBA
Independent-school educator and technology leader with experience in teaching, faculty development, school operations, responsible AI, and applied educational research.
Review approachLiving curriculum
Research standards and source library →Guidance is checked against primary sources and revised as technology, research, and institutional expectations change.
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