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The first Prompt With Me Livestream
Prompt With Me.
A live, welcoming first session on digital literacy, the prompting skill of the decade, and a simple 4-step framework you can use today — hosted by Justine Gonzalez.
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What is digital literacy, really?
It's not about being good with computers. It's the ability to find, evaluate, create, and communicate with digital tools — thoughtfully, ethically, and with intention.
Evaluate
Tell the difference between fact, opinion, marketing, and machine-generated.
Create
Make something new — text, media, code, ideas — using digital tools as collaborators.
Communicate
Share your work clearly, safely, and with respect for the people on the other end.
The 2026 update: digital literacy now includes prompting — the ability to talk to AI models in a way that gets you useful, accurate, and ethical results.
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Why prompting is vital for 2026 & beyond
Prompting isn't a tech skill — it's a thinking skill. It's how you get better answers from AI, how you brief a teammate, and how you communicate with clarity in a world flooded with information.
It's the new literacy.
Reading and writing taught us to think on paper. Prompting teaches us to think out loud — clearly enough that an AI, a colleague, or a future-you can follow it.
Career
People who prompt well move faster. They ship more, learn faster, and turn one idea into ten outputs.
Personal
Plan a trip. Draft a hard email. Decode a doctor's note. Good prompting gives you a thinking partner, on demand.
Education
Students who learn to prompt learn to question, refine, and verify — habits that outlast any single tool.
Equity
Prompting lowers the barrier. You don't need to code to build, research, or design anymore — you need to ask well.
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Why I built Teach Techies
your hostess
About your hostess
Justine Gonzalez
Educational entrepreneur · Curriculum developer · Researcher
I've spent my career inside K–12 classrooms, research labs, and ed-tech platforms watching teachers, students, and parents wrestle with new tools. The pattern is always the same: the tools change faster than the training.
Teach Techies is my answer to that gap — a digital learning community where educators, professionals, and curious humans learn the skills that actually matter for the next decade. Not buzzwords. Not hype. Just clear, research-backed practice.
Prompt With Me is our flagship live series. We sit down together, open a real AI tool, and learn how to think with it — out loud, in public, in community.
IB PYP
Certified primary years teacher
K–12
Curriculum & research, Midwest US
ProTeachAI
Foundation founder & lead educator
Bilingual
Speaks English & Spanish
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The 4-step prompting framework
A simple, repeatable way to figure out how and why you're prompting — before you ever type a word into the box. Click each step to explore.
Step 01 · Purpose
Why are you asking?
Before you prompt, name the outcome. Are you trying to learn, decide, create, or communicate? The clearer your purpose, the clearer your prompt — and the better the answer.
Try this
"I'm trying to decide between two curriculum models for grade 4 science…"
Step 02 · Person
Who is this for?
Tell the model who you are and who the audience is. A 4th-grade lesson plan, a board update, and a podcast script all need different voices, lengths, and depth.
Try this
"I'm a PYP teacher writing for parents who don't speak education jargon…"
Step 03 · Particulars
What are the constraints?
Format, length, tone, examples, things to avoid. The particulars are where most prompts get sloppy — and where the biggest quality jumps live.
Try this
"Give me 3 options, ~120 words each, warm but professional, no emojis, include one quote."
Step 04 · Polish
What needs to change?
Great prompting is iterative. Read the output. Push back. Ask for shorter, sharper, kinder, more accurate. Verify facts. Polish is where prompting becomes a skill, not a lottery.
Try this
"Tighten this by 30%, cut anything you can't source, and make the closing warmer."
Purpose · Person · Particulars · Polish. Four words. Endless reuse.
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Does the LLM really matter?
Short answer: yes — but probably not the way you think. Tap each model to see where it shines. The bigger lever is almost always your prompt.
ChatGPT
Strong all-rounder. Great default if you're new — friendly, forgiving, lots of integrations. Excellent for brainstorming, drafting, and creative play.
Best for: general assistance, ideation, beginners.
Claude
Often the best long-form writer and most careful reasoner. Reads long documents well, follows nuanced instructions, and stays in voice.
Best for: writing, editing, careful analysis, long context.
Gemini
Lives inside Google's ecosystem — strong with Docs, Sheets, Gmail, and search-grounded answers. Great for research that needs fresh, web-sourced context.
Best for: Google Workspace users, search-grounded research.
Perplexity
An answer engine, not a chatbot. Cites sources by default, which makes it perfect for fact-checking and research where you need to trust (and verify) what you're reading.
Best for: research, citations, verifying claims.
The honest truth: a great prompt on a "weaker" model usually beats a lazy prompt on the "best" model. Pick the tool that fits the job — then prompt it well.
Next live meetup · members only
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Join the Teach Techies Digital Learning Community to get access to the full Prompt With Me series, member-only live meetups, prompt libraries, replays, and a friendly community of educators and curious humans.
- Live monthly Prompt With Me sessions
- Replays + downloadable prompt templates
- Members-only Q&A and feedback
- A friendly community of educators & curious humans
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Bonus
Keep learning with App Fabulous
The official Teach Techies companion podcast — short, useful conversations on AI, education, and the apps changing how we live and work. Tune in between live sessions.
The official Teach Techies companion podcast
App Fabulous
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