Teaching and Prompt Engineering: A new digital skill for teachers in the era of Generative Artificial Intelligence

Journal title EDUCATION SCIENCES AND SOCIETY
Author/s Michele Baldassare, Anna Maria Cuzzi, Francesco Pio Sarcina
Publishing Year 2025 Issue 2024/2
Language Italian Pages 14 P. 284-297 File size 0 KB
DOI 10.3280/ess2-2024oa18443
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This contribution examines the impact of Generative Artificial Intelligence (GAI) on teachers’ digital skills, with a particular focus on Prompt Engineering, a new discipline where soft and hard skills intertwine, offering a new landscape for educational practice. Starting from an analysis of the challenges, in terms of existing digital skills, encountered by teachers, it highlights the obstacles that hinder the adoption of advanced technologies in schools, such as the uneven distribution of skills and resistance to change (Badino et al., 2023; Lorenzoni, 2024). The article then explores possible solutions, proposing an integrated approach that combines the DigCompEdu framework, the SAMR model, and TPAK (Bocconi et al., 2018; Puentedura, 2009; Di Blas et al., 2018). Finally, it outlines the steps for crafting effective prompts in the educational context, with the goal of optimizing the interaction between teachers and AI, promoting a personalized and innovative teaching approach (Sentinelli and Placa, 2024; Miceli, 2023).

Keywords: ; Generative AI; digital skills; prompt engineering; teachers; educational design

Michele Baldassare, Anna Maria Cuzzi, Francesco Pio Sarcina, Didattica e Prompt Engineering: una nuova competenza digitale per i docenti nell’era dell’Intelligenza Artificiale Generativa in "EDUCATION SCIENCES AND SOCIETY" 2/2024, pp 284-297, DOI: 10.3280/ess2-2024oa18443