Role (1st R)
Who you tell the AI to be — a job plus an audience.
In practice
"Act as a zookeeper who teaches kids about animals."
Where students meet it
Role (1st R) is taught in Lesson 3, The 4 R's: Your Meta Prompt Framework, part of the Prompting unit of the AI Explorers course for kids. Iara 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
Role (1st R) is one of 58 terms students meet across 16 video lessons that teach them to direct AI rather than just use it.