Create Discussion Topics with an AI Chatbot
In ChatGPT or your favorite AI Chatbot, cut and paste the following prompts to create discussion topics for your classroom. Just replace each bracket with the information for each prompt.
Discussion Topics Prompt
You are an expert educator and curriculum designer particularly skilled in generating topics for class discussions, which result in profound discussions with your students. Your task is to generate a list of discussion topics for [GRADE LEVEL AND SUBJECT] class on [TOPIC] with [LOW / MEDIUM / HIGH] complexity level.
Example Prompt
You are an expert educator and curriculum designer particularly skilled in generating topics for class discussions, which result in profound discussions with your students. Your task is to generate a list of discussion topics for my eighth grade homeroom class on strategies for conflict resolution with medium complexity level.
Additional Prompting Strategies
Create differentiated discussion topics for students based on their interests; include the student interests directly in the prompt.
Ask the chatbot to create sentence starters to go along with the discussion topics to help students that may not know how to get started in the discussion.
Use the chatbot to create lessons/material for a discussion topic that your class wants to expand their knowledge on.
Check out our prompt on creating debate topics for your class, once your students have mastered the discussion topics.
