Join senior instructors from Computing for All as we introduce you to Generative AI (GenAI) through Copilot.com, Microsoft's own GenAI chat assistant. We will guide you through a fun hands-on experience designing and creating with Microsoft Copilot, including:
What GenAI actually is and how prompts work
How to form effective prompts to generate useful results
Why GenAI literacy is important, not only for productivity, but also for safety
While this session utilizes Microsoft Copilot, the knowledge and skills you'll learn are transferrable to more GenAI chat assistants like Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, and Grok.
To follow along easily, you will want to use a laptop or desktop computer. While not necessary, you can also create a free Microsoft account used with: Copilot.com to store prompts and Microsoft Learn to earn badges.
Lynn Schirmer is a designer, frontend developer, and artist with more than two decades of experience in digital design and development. Since 2005, Lynn has operated a freelance design and development practice, creating websites and digital experiences for a wide range of clients from individuals to corporations. In 2017, Lynn began teaching coding classes, and transitioned into curriculum development. Lynn joined Computing for All in 2022, and developed the current curriculum for its Tech Career Bridge, a six course full stack web development program.
Jonathan Chan is a senior instructor with Computing for All's full-stack web development program and game development workshops. While he has been teaching how to make websites and games for the last five years, he has been making both for the last twenty years. Seeing how web and game development technologies have evolved and disappeared over decades has nurtured a grounded sense of optimism in him toward emerging technologies. In the last year, he has been instructing students how to use GenAI prompts to assist in the ideation, design, and creation of personal projects without hindering their ability to learn for themselves, and he has also been teaching them how to utilize GenAI APIs to develop novel features for their web projects.