GenAI tips from the Eden Centre

Every tip posted in the Eden Centre’s AI and Education channel in Teams.

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A 36-second introduction to the series. It has no sound, and its captions are part of the picture.

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Scene 1: Opening

0:00 to 0:04

A wooden catalogue drawer labelled “GenAI tips” slides up into view, with the tops of coloured tip cards showing inside it.

The title types out above the drawer, letter by letter: “Working with GenAI in 2026/27”.

Caption: “A new series for the AI and Education channel”

Scene 2: The first card

0:04 to 0:08

The drawer rattles, and the first tip card rises out of it: “GenAI tip 1: Your chatbot has a computer”.

The card’s picture shows a chatbot connected to four tools: Search the web, Run code, Make files and Analyse data.

Caption: “Short, practical GenAI tips, one every weekday”

Scene 3: Themed collections

0:08 to 0:13

The drawer drops away and the first card moves to the centre.

Cards in different colours fan out behind it, one for each themed collection. Only the first card shows its collection name, “How chatbots work now”.

Caption: “Tips come in themed collections, starting with How chatbots work now”

Scene 4: A week of tips

0:13 to 0:18

The fan folds away and five cards slide into a row, with the days of the week typed above them. The Tuesday and Thursday cards lift up and are labelled “AI at LSE” and “In the news”.

The five cards in the week
DayTip cardType
MondayYour chatbot has a computerHow chatbots work now
TuesdayWhat’s new with Claude Artifacts?AI at LSE
WednesdayName the tool you want it to useHow chatbots work now
ThursdayExperts followed their AI agent’s suggestionsIn the news
FridayChatbots reward expertiseHow chatbots work now

Caption: “Three bite-sized tips a week, plus an AI at LSE update and a news story”

Scene 5: Try this

0:18 to 0:23

The other cards fade, and Friday’s card, “Chatbots reward expertise”, grows to fill the screen and flips over.

The back of the card is headed “GenAI tip 5 · Try this” and shows a prompt: “Using the attached course syllabus and my blog post on formative assessment, suggest three dialogic feedback activities for this course.” A “Copy prompt” button pulses once.

Caption: “Every card has a prompt to try in Claude or Copilot”

Scene 6: The collection

0:23 to 0:28

A search box and a “Quiz yourself” button fade in, and twelve tip cards deal up from the bottom of the screen into a grid, one at a time, in a mix of collection colours.

The twelve cards in the grid are:

  • Your chatbot has a computer
  • Ask for evidence, not agreement
  • Show it an example
  • Keep your master copy outside the chatbot
  • Position 1 needs a spell-checker decision
  • Every chat is a role-play
  • Find themes in free-text comments
  • Experts followed their AI agent’s suggestions
  • Training vs prompting
  • Share a link that stays up to date
  • Observed assessment continues in 2026/27
  • Make a GIF for your slides

Caption: “Every tip collected on one page, with a quiz to test yourself”

Scene 7: Games

0:28 to 0:31

The tip card “Agent: a model that works in steps” appears in the centre. A small robot, the rogue bot from the tips page game, rises from behind it, wobbles and says “Found me!”.

Caption: “…and a few games along the way”

Scene 8: End card

0:31 to 0:36

Everything slides away and an end card drops in, then stays still for the rest of the video.

The end card reads: “Starts today. Working with GenAI in 2026/27. In the AI and Education channel, every weekday. Every tip in one place: tinyurl.com/edenaitips”. It also shows a QR code that opens the same address.

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Try this

Why it works

Quiz yourself on the tips

You’ll get a question about a card. Write your answer from memory, rate how sure you are, then turn the card over and compare your answer with the model answer.

Who’s playing?

A random mix

Cards from every category, mixed together. Cards you haven’t tried, or got wrong last time, come up more often.

One category

Every card in one category, in a mixed order.

Cards you choose

Pick the cards yourself on the table, then start the quiz.

Why the quiz works like this

You write the answer from memory

Each card has its own question about its main idea. Pulling an idea out of memory strengthens it more than reading it again. Writing the answer in your own words makes you do that retrieving yourself, rather than recognising the right option in a list (Roediger and Karpicke, 2006). Even a partial answer counts.

You rate your confidence before you look

Reading something makes it feel familiar, and familiarity is easy to mistake for knowing it (Koriat and Bjork, 2005). Rating how sure you are first, then comparing, shows where your confidence runs ahead of what you can recall, so you know which cards to spend more time on.

You mark your own answer

Comparing your words with the card makes you notice exactly what you missed. That comparison is the feedback, and it sticks better because you did the work of spotting the gap.

The random mix shuffles categories together

Mixing topics feels harder than taking them one at a time, but it helps you tell similar ideas apart and remember them for longer (Kornell and Bjork, 2008). Difficulties like this, which slow you down now but help later, are what Bjork and Bjork (2011) call desirable difficulties.

Cards you missed come back

The random mix favours cards you haven’t tried or got wrong, especially ones you last saw more than a week ago. Recalling something again after a gap of days strengthens memory more than repeating it straight away (Cepeda and colleagues, 2006).

Hints are there if you need them

Try without the picture first. If you’re stuck, the hint gives you a nudge rather than the answer, so you still do some of the recalling.

Playing with someone else

In two-player mode you both answer before either of you sees the card. Comparing your answers, and talking through where they differ, makes you both explain your thinking. Explaining an idea in your own words helps you understand it and spot the gaps in it (Chi and colleagues, 1994).

Playing on two devices

One of you answers while the other checks the answer against its key points, then you swap. Checking someone else’s answer against a model answer builds evaluative judgement, the ability to tell what makes an answer good (Tai and colleagues, 2018). Explaining what was missing helps you both remember it.

Start small

Five cards is a good first quiz. Getting some right early on makes it easier to keep going and take on more.

References

  • Bjork, E. L. and Bjork, R. A. (2011) Making things hard on yourself, but in a good way.
  • Cepeda, N. J. and colleagues (2006) Distributed practice in verbal recall tasks. Psychological Bulletin.
  • Chi, M. T. H. and colleagues (1994) Eliciting self-explanations improves understanding. Cognitive Science.
  • Koriat, A. and Bjork, R. A. (2005) Illusions of competence in monitoring one’s knowledge during study. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition.
  • Kornell, N. and Bjork, R. A. (2008) Learning concepts and categories: is spacing the “enemy of induction”? Psychological Science.
  • Roediger, H. L. and Karpicke, J. D. (2006) Test-enhanced learning. Psychological Science.
  • Tai, J. and colleagues (2018) Developing evaluative judgement: enabling students to make decisions about the quality of work. Higher Education.

Your answers and results stay in this browser. Nothing is sent anywhere.

Writing it from memory is what makes it stick, even if you only remember part of it.

How sure are you that your answer is right?

Rating before you look helps you spot when you feel surer than you are.

Choose how sure you are first.

Find the rogue bot

A rogue bot is hiding under one of the cards. Read the clue, then select the card it’s hiding under. Each time you find it, it hides under another one. How many times can you find it in 60 seconds?

Choosing the wrong card costs you 3 seconds. And the bot is only pretending: as one of the tips explains, AI doesn’t “go rogue” on its own, because people design and run it.

Match the pairs

Every tip card has a key idea. Turn over two cards at a time to find each tip and its key idea. If they don’t match, they turn back over, so try to remember where each one was.

Dark cards are tips and grey cards are key ideas, so turn over one of each. The fewer goes you take, the better.

Shake for a tip

Shake your phone to rattle the drawer, and a random card will pop out. Or select Pick a card.

Add the tips to your home screen

You can keep these tips on your phone or tablet like an app, and open them without the browser’s address bar. Once you’ve opened them, they also work without an internet connection.

iPhone and iPad

  1. Open this page in Safari.
  2. Tap the Share button, a square with an arrow pointing up. On some versions of iOS it’s inside the More (•••) menu.
  3. Tap Add to Home Screen, then Add.

Android

  1. Open this page in Chrome.
  2. Tap the menu (three dots) at the top right.
  3. Tap Add to home screen or Install app, then follow the prompts.