Participant Workbook: Prompt Practice

Main prompt-practice step in the participant workbook flow.

Participant workbook flow

This is one workbook journey. The pages are separate only so the night feels calmer and easier to follow step by step.

Step 1

Start and setup

Choose your topic, your level, and the kind of help you want.

Step 2

Prompt practice (Current step)

Do the main text-prompt activity and record what changed.

Step 3

Image and extension lab

Try one image prompt and use extension tasks if you move quickly.

Step 4

Reflection and summary

Review what changed, what still needs checking, and what you want to keep.

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Exercise model

This is still the exercise section, but now it is part of the same participant workbook flow. Use Guided, Build, Remix, or Stretch. Pick the level that helps you keep moving. No level is a status label.

Category	Level	Weak starter prompt	Scaffolded tip	Follow-up
Prompt improvement	Guided	Help me learn history.	Add goal, audience, format, and a real-world limit.	Try one more version with a clearer audience or format.
Prompt improvement	Build	Help me get ready for camp.	Add goal, audience, format, and a real-world limit.	Try one more version with a clearer audience or format.
Prompt improvement	Remix	Tell me about Vancouver.	Add goal, audience, format, and a real-world limit.	Try one more version with a clearer audience or format.
Prompt improvement	Stretch	Help me plan a project.	Add goal, audience, format, and a real-world limit.	Try one more version with a clearer audience or format.
Summarize and refine	Guided	Summarize this article.	Split big tasks into smaller prompt steps when needed.	Try one more version with a clearer audience or format.
Summarize and refine	Build	Summarize this and make it better.	Split big tasks into smaller prompt steps when needed.	Try one more version with a clearer audience or format.
Summarize and refine	Remix	Explain this video.	Split big tasks into smaller prompt steps when needed.	Try one more version with a clearer audience or format.
Summarize and refine	Stretch	Turn this into study notes.	Split big tasks into smaller prompt steps when needed.	Try one more version with a clearer audience or format.
Tone and audience rewrite	Guided	Rewrite this message.	Name the audience, tone, and length target.	Try one more version with a clearer audience or format.
Tone and audience rewrite	Build	Make this sound better.	Name the audience, tone, and length target.	Try one more version with a clearer audience or format.
Tone and audience rewrite	Remix	Rewrite this camp announcement.	Name the audience, tone, and length target.	Try one more version with a clearer audience or format.
Tone and audience rewrite	Stretch	Turn this into a short speech.	Name the audience, tone, and length target.	Try one more version with a clearer audience or format.
Image prompt design	Guided	Make a poster for camp.	Add subject, mood, style, colour, and layout clues.	Try one more version with a clearer audience or format.
Image prompt design	Build	Make a cool logo.	Add subject, mood, style, colour, and layout clues.	Try one more version with a clearer audience or format.
Image prompt design	Remix	Create an event image.	Add subject, mood, style, colour, and layout clues.	Try one more version with a clearer audience or format.
Image prompt design	Stretch	Create a set of matching images.	Add subject, mood, style, colour, and layout clues.	Try one more version with a clearer audience or format.
Reflection on AI output quality	Guided	Which answer is better?	Judge usefulness, clarity, accuracy signs, and fit for purpose.	Try one more version with a clearer audience or format.
Reflection on AI output quality	Build	Compare these two outputs.	Judge usefulness, clarity, accuracy signs, and fit for purpose.	Try one more version with a clearer audience or format.
Reflection on AI output quality	Remix	Why is this not quite right?	Judge usefulness, clarity, accuracy signs, and fit for purpose.	Try one more version with a clearer audience or format.
Reflection on AI output quality	Stretch	What would you verify before trusting this output?	Judge usefulness, clarity, accuracy signs, and fit for purpose.	Try one more version with a clearer audience or format.
Optional Codex observation task	Guided	Watch the facilitator demo and name one useful constraint.	Keep the focus on prompt clarity, not on coding status.	Try one more version with a clearer audience or format.
Optional Codex observation task	Build	Explain what Codex is and is not.	Keep the focus on prompt clarity, not on coding status.	Try one more version with a clearer audience or format.
Optional Codex observation task	Remix	Adapt the coding demo lesson back into a browser-only prompt lesson.	Keep the focus on prompt clarity, not on coding status.	Try one more version with a clearer audience or format.
Optional Codex observation task	Stretch	Explain why the coding demo is optional and secondary.	Keep the focus on prompt clarity, not on coding status.	Try one more version with a clearer audience or format.

Progression tips

Start on Guided if you want a clear sentence frame.
Move to Build when you can name the audience and format yourself.
Use Remix when you want to adapt an idea for a different purpose.
Use Stretch when you already have a solid result and want to push it further.

Step 2 of 4: Prompt practice

This is the main text-prompt work page. Record the starter prompt, your improved version, what changed, and what gap remained.

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Weak starter prompt

Your improved prompt

What changed in your prompt?

What were you hoping the output would do?

How would you rate the output so far?

Did the result meet your expectation?

What gap remained?

What would you still verify or double-check?

What is the next improvement you want to try?

Workbook helper

Use the helper like a coach. It should help you spot what to improve next instead of leaving you at a dead end.

Suggested starter card: Choose a category and level.

Improvement tip: Choose a category and level.

Follow-up coaching: After you review the result, the workbook suggests a next move.

Fast-finisher extension: Finish one good prompt first, then take an extension path.

Back: Start and setupNext: Image and extension lab

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Reusable demo cards

ChatGPT demo 1: study helper

Weak prompt: Help me study science.

Why weak: It does not name the topic, age, format, or what would make the answer useful.

Improved prompt: I am 15 and reviewing photosynthesis. Explain it in five short bullet points, give one everyday analogy, and end with two quiz questions.

Teaching point: Prompt quality often comes from clear purpose, audience, format, and limits.

Optional learner follow-up: Change the subject to geography or biology and keep the same structure.

ChatGPT demo 2: weekend planner

Weak prompt: Plan my weekend.

Why weak: It is too open-ended and gives no budget, location, style, or age context.

Improved prompt: Plan a low-cost Saturday for a teen in Vancouver with one outdoor idea, one indoor backup, and one snack stop. Keep the whole plan under $25 and list it as a simple timeline.

Teaching point: Specific constraints often make a response more practical.

Optional learner follow-up: Remix it for a rainy evening or a family outing.

ChatGPT demo 3: tone and audience rewrite

Weak prompt: Rewrite this email.

Why weak: It does not say who the email is for, how it should sound, or what to keep short.

Improved prompt: Rewrite this email so it sounds polite and clear for a teacher. Keep it under 120 words, make the ask obvious, and remove dramatic wording.

Teaching point: Audience and tone can matter as much as topic.

Optional learner follow-up: Change the audience to a team leader or event organizer.

Image demo 1: camp poster

Weak prompt: Make a camp poster.

Why weak: The tool has to guess the mood, style, colours, and layout.

Improved prompt: Create a friendly poster-style image for a scout campfire night at dusk with warm lantern light, navy and gold colours, pine trees in the background, and space at the top for a title.

Teaching point: Image prompts improve when the request includes scene, style, mood, and layout clues.

Optional learner follow-up: Remix it for a daytime family picnic poster.

Image demo 2: round sticker

Weak prompt: Make a cool sticker.

Why weak: Cool means different things to different people and gives no design direction.

Improved prompt: Design a round sticker with a mountain, a compass, and a small spark icon using bold flat colours, thick outlines, and a clean badge layout.

Teaching point: Style words and layout words help image tools narrow the result.

Optional learner follow-up: Remix it for a camp mug graphic or social tile.

Facilitator-only Codex demo

Weak prompt: Build me an app.

Why weak: It does not say what kind of app, what size, or what success looks like.

Improved prompt: Make one small HTML page for a scout checklist with a heading, three checklist items, one Complete button, and a short explanation of the changes. Keep it in one file.

Teaching point: The same prompt lesson applies to coding assistants: clearer requests reduce confusion.

Optional learner follow-up: Ask how the same prompt could be adapted for a bug fix.