Does getting your students to implement study and time management skills feel like a Sisyphean feat? How do we bridge the gap between students "knowing" how to study and actually utilizing beneficial study methods? LLM-based chatbots like ChatGPT and Copilot have the potential to be personalized tutors for our students but bring with them the potential for hallucinations and false illusions of learning. The Personal Academic Wildcat Support (PAWS) project is building prompts that convert an AI tool into a learning expert that coaches students to use effective learning strategies on their upcoming assessments. Unlike many AI study tutors, the focus is not on teaching course content, but on supporting students in implementing personalized study and time management strategies. The goal is not to replace the human connection between advisors/instructors and students or pre-existing institutional study resources, but rather to provide an additional support system to help students reflect on their learning and embed new skills and habits into their everyday routine. In this session, we'll share the ongoing research leading to our template prompts and walk through customizing these prompts for your specific needs. You'll walk away with personalized prompts that directly address your students' studying challenges.
