Objective
The question primer introduces basic tasks that engage with a key question form. The Theme can be followed sequentially or they can be used as a warm-up or stop-gap activity before other tasks are used. They also link to the CSI Framework Theme F.
On the home page of each Unit in this Theme, I ask a question of myself. The Task for each Unit is also indicated (in the other Themes the Reading is indicated and the Tasks are to be found in a link on Page H in the drop-down menu at the top of each page).
Organisation
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Unit 1. What?
What are your values? Know yourself to improve yourself? (August Comte) Looks at Schwartz 2012) and primary values.
Unit 2. Who?
Who do you think you are? SWOT framework.
Unit 3. Where?
Where do you expect to be? Hart and aspirations.
Unit 4 When?
Scheduling. 1+1.
Unit 5 How?
STAR approach.
Unit 6 Why?
A difficult question to answer.
Think About:
“I keep six honest serving men (they taught me all I knew); Their names are What and Why and When And How And Where and Who” – Rudyard Kipling
In interviews it is not only the answers you give but the smart questions you ask that will make the difference.
Prompt Engineering:
Developing the skills for AI is essential in any organisation. It is based on instilling and refining the skill of asking questions. The challenge is that in education/training this is being ignored or underplayed. Why? Because people asking questions challenge decision makers and in compliant/high trust societies the use of questions is sometimes seen as a threat rather than an opportunity.
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Federiakin, D., et al. (2024). Prompt engineering as a new 21st century skill. Frontiers in Education.