📖 Today’s lesson
Lesson 1: What is AI — and what is a prompt?
A large language model is a pattern-recognition engine: a teaching assistant with perfect recall of every textbook and zero classroom instinct. A prompt is your instruction — and its most powerful line is assigning a role.
Why this matters: Ask a bare question and you get an encyclopedia entry. Assign the role of a master teacher and you get pedagogy: scaffolding, misconception awareness, age-appropriate language. One line changes everything — and it starts here.