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Prompt Literacy Cycle: a five-stage recursive structure for daily prompting practice

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Description

The Prompt Literacy Cycle is the instructional tool nested within Phase Two of the framework, giving students a concrete, repeatable structure for developing prompt literacy at the level of daily practice. It guides students through five recursive stages: clarify purpose, craft the prompt, engage with output, refine the prompt, and reflect. The authors state it encourages experimentation, reflection, and interactive improvement in students' interactions with LLMs, and can be introduced through demonstrations, scaffolded assignments, or workshops.

Design Implications

Context

Requirements

  • Instructors introduce it through demonstrations, scaffolded assignments, or workshops so students internalize both the mechanics of prompting and the ethical and epistemological dimensions of LLM engagement

Constraints

  • It operates at the level of daily practice, while the five-phase model guides the overall arc of LLM-integrated learning

Target Learners

  • higher education students

Learning Goals

  • prompt literacy
  • critical interpretation of LLM outputs
  • reflective revision

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Key Sources

  • April Joy Miles, Paige Haber-Curran, Khalid Arar. (2026). Prompts to Practice: A Pedagogical Framework for Human-Centered AI Engagement. Open Praxis, 18(3), 481–494. https://doi.org/10.55982/openpraxis.18.3.1191
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title Prompt Literacy Cycle: a five-stage recursive structure for daily prompting practice
description The Prompt Literacy Cycle is the instructional tool nested within Phase Two of the framework, giving students a concrete, repeatable structure for developing prompt literacy at the level of daily practice.
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