AI Prompting in Higher Education PLC Session 3: Teaching Prompting to Students Westcliff University | Summer 2025 PLC

This resource, AI Prompting in Higher Education PLC: Session 3 – Teaching Prompting to Students, is the final installment of a three-part Professional Learning Community (PLC) series led at Westcliff University in Summer 2025 by Dr. Shelley L. Spessard, Ed.D.This session focuses on empowering students with prompt literacy, equipping them to think critically, ethically, and creatively in an AI-augmented world. Faculty participants explore the Student Prompting Framework and the “Prompt Upgrade Challenge,” which helps students refine vague prompts into precise, higher-order requests that yield academically rigorous AI outputs. Activities emphasize scaffolding, collaboration, and ethical engagement, ensuring students use AI as a research support rather than a shortcut.By the end of this session, educators are prepared to model and teach prompting as a transferable literacy skill, cultivating student agency, ethical awareness, and academic integrity. This resource provides practical strategies for embedding prompting into coursework, assignments, and discussions, supporting both faculty growth and student readiness for the future of learning.