Chain-of-Thought
Asking the AI to work through its reasoning step by step, which makes it noticeably better at hard problems.
In practice
"Show your steps before you give the final answer."
Where students meet it
Chain-of-Thought is taught in Lesson 4, Level Up: Iteration & Chain-of-Thought, part of the Prompting unit of the AI Explorers course for kids. Carter is the guide for that lesson, and it is one of 12 terms in the unit.
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KNOWING THE WORD IS THE START
Chain-of-Thought is one of 58 terms students meet across 16 video lessons that teach them to direct AI rather than just use it.