The Secret Is Just to Talk: Getting Real Results from AI Conversations
Presenter: ASMSA
Description: Here is the thing nobody tells you about prompting AI: the people who get the best results aren't following a framework. They're just talking.
Not typing a keyword. Not filling out a mental template. Talking — the same way you'd explain a problem to a trusted colleague over lunch. The same way you'd tell a story. Stream of consciousness, a little messy, nothing left out. And it works so well because by the time you've typed everything you can think of, you've accidentally included everything AI needs to actually help you.
This session is built around that truth. We are not here to memorize an acronym. We are here to lower the bar for what 'good prompting' looks like — because for most people, that bar is way too high and way too technical, and it is keeping them from ever really trying.
That said, some people freeze in front of a blank prompt box. Their mind goes empty and they type three words and wonder why they got a generic response. For those moments, it helps to know what your brain is reaching for when you talk naturally: Who are your students? What do you actually need? What does 'done' look like? What would make this wrong? Those aren't framework steps — they're just the things you would say out loud if you weren't staring at a cursor.
We will look at real before-and-after prompts — not to shame the short ones, but to feel the difference between a prompt that gives AI almost nothing to work with and one that gives it your actual brain. Participants will practice writing prompts the way they talk, get results in real time, and discover that the thing they were overthinking was really just a conversation waiting to happen.
This session is heartfelt and honest. AI is not magic, and prompting is not a technical skill. It is the willingness to explain yourself — and it turns out most teachers are already very good at that.
Participants will leave with:
- A completely different mental model for what prompting is — and isn't
- The before-and-after experience of seeing what 'just talking' produces vs. a bare-minimum prompt
- A personal understanding of what their brain naturally reaches for when they explain things well
- Confidence that they are already closer to being good at this than they thought
- A simple check-in they can use when they feel stuck: just keep typing until they can't think of anything else to say