AI in Education Daily
Is 'prompt engineering' still vital for teachers?
Published: 9 June 2026 at 02:00 Europe/London
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Highlights
- Today we are exploring an article I wrote for Forbes this week, simply titled "Prompt Engineering Isn't Dead, But The Caricature Is." It's a piece where I tried to cut through some of the noise about a topic that's often talked about, but rarely deeply understood.
- Early systems, when they first came out, rewarded a kind of incantation.
- We're not teaching students to outsmart machines with clever tricks; we're teaching them to outthink them by designing better processes.
- You adjust your communication, you say more, or you break it down differently.
- It builds AI literacy around four key capabilities: engaging with AI, creating with it, managing it, and designing it.
