Prompting Is a Form of Thinking
Prompting is more than a technique for getting better AI responses. It requires students to define the problem, identify what they know, recognize what they still need, and decide what role AI should play. When students remain responsible for those decisions, prompting becomes a form of metacognition—and a way to learn alongside AI without handing over the thinking.
The Missing Purpose Problem
If students don’t see the why, nothing else matters.
We spend a lot of time talking about AI, academic integrity, and “cheating.”
But there’s a more uncomfortable truth underneath it: When students don’t understand the purpose of what they’re doing…shortcut behavior isn’t laziness. It’s rational.