Bits & Bytes Podcast Shorts: Teaching AI Prompting to Young Students

Bits & Bytes Podcast Shorts: Teaching AI Prompting to Young Students - A Simple, Classroom-Ready Approach for Educators 

In this Bits & Bytes podcast short from Classroom Dynamics, host Adam Todd breaks down one of the most approachable—and powerful—entry points into artificial intelligence for schools: teaching young students the concept of AI prompting. Designed specifically for educators, instructional leaders, and professional development teams, this episode reframes #AI #prompting not as a technical skill, but as an extension of what great teachers already do every day—teaching students how to ask clear, meaningful questions. 

AI can feel intimidating in elementary and middle school settings, but this episode shows how AI literacy, digital literacy, and metacognitive skills naturally intersect through prompt-building. Listeners will explore how AI prompting supports higher-order thinking, executive functioning, language development, and student reflection, while reinforcing ethical and responsible AI use in the classroom. 

Adam connects AI prompting to real classroom practice, demonstrating how students can use AI as a thinking partner for self-directed learning, self-assessment, writing feedback, and personalized explanations—without replacing authentic thinking or teacher instruction. The episode also highlights how prompting aligns with future-ready skills tied to education technology, instructional design, creative media, and AI-driven careers, positioning AI communication as a new form of literacy alongside media, information, data, visual, and social-emotional literacy. 

If you’re looking for practical professional development, AI in #education strategies, or classroom-ready approaches to teaching AI responsibly, this short episode delivers clear takeaways in just minutes.