GIANT Recipe Book: The Adventures of 26 Prompt Engineers & Material Scientists
For four weeks, The GIANT Room and Joan Ganz Cooney Center from Sesame Workshop joined students and teachers at their school to learn about AI literacy, creative writing, and science. As part of the school’s Material Science unit, we focused on ingredients, where they come from, their special properties, and their cause and effect. Students formed groups and together dreamed of an imaginary location where they would brew a special potion with their ingredients. They then wrote recipes for their potions addressing a given design challenge and put together evidence statements for their potion’s cause and effect. Results of their work have been published in this book, along with a set of collectible ingredient trading cards.
During the program, students used a variety of prototyping and generative AI tools, practiced writing, and engaged in block-based prompt engineering. As a result, they developed awareness about AI, learned how to use AI in service of their ideas, how to spot AI’s mistakes, and how to critically evaluate AI outputs. They also showed improvement in their writing and expressive language skills.
We want to thank the school and the Joan Ganz Cooney Center for their partnership and to the Robin Hood Foundation for funding the program and making this publication possible.
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