The Edu Prompt by OpenAI Education
A field guide for learning, teaching, and building with AI.
Issue 1: June 2, 2026
Welcome to the first issue of The Edu Prompt by OpenAI Education — a field guide for learning, teaching, and building with AI. A couple of times each month, we’ll share product updates, OpenAI Education collaborations, and practical ideas for the classroom, your institution, and beyond.
We hope you enjoy it. If there are topics you’d like us to cover in future editions, let us know. We’d also love to hear how you’re using AI at your institution.
In This Issue
Updates
Feature Story: Dr. Brinnae Bent, a Duke professor, built a chatbot that refuses to give A’s to teach adversarial thinking, AI literacy, and cybersecurity.
Product Update: Codex is now in preview in the ChatGPT mobile app, so longer-running work can keep moving from your phone.
Around the World: Education for Countries moves from access toward implementation and evidence.
Try one
Prompt to Prompt: Teachers, plan your summer reset.
Codex Summer Challenge: Turn messy notes into a clean tracker.
Inside Track: Use image generation to compare visual ideas before choosing one.
Learning with OpenAI: Support Family Conversations With Voice Mode.
Feature Story
An assignment that teaches AI literacy and Cybersecurity
Featured educator: Dr. Brinnae Bent, Duke University
In Dr. Brinnae Bent’s AI and Cybersecurity course, students do not just read about adversarial AI. They experience it.
The assignment is called Hack Your Grade. Students interact with a chatbot designed not to give out A’s. Their job is to convince, trick, or exploit the system into awarding the grade they want.
It is playful on the surface, but the learning goal is serious. Students practice persuasion, prompt injection, social engineering, and model critique inside a bounded environment where experimentation is the point.
Why it works: Students learn adversarial AI best by interacting with a system, not just reading definitions.
Product Update
Codex Mobile helps you keep work moving
Codex is on your phone in preview through the ChatGPT mobile app. You can start, steer, unblock, and review work, and take the next step while away from your laptop: from helping answer questions with more insight to helping move your research forward.
Around the World
Education for Countries enters its next phase
OpenAI shared early progress from Education for Countries and welcomed Singapore, Armenia, and Azerbaijan to the program.
The important shift: countries are moving beyond access to AI tools toward evidence-based deployments that combine research, localized tools, and teacher training.
Proof points: Estonia’s deployment reaches more than 20,000 students and 4,600 teachers. Jordan’s AI Education Assistant has engaged more than 1 million students and 100,000 teachers. Kazakhstan reports more than 84,000 educators completing AI-readiness training.
Prompt to Prompt
Plan your summer reset
Summer is a chance for teachers to recover before they rebuild. This prompt is designed to help you slow down, reflect on the past school year, and make a light, realistic plan for next year without turning your break into a second job. Open it in ChatGPT, answer a few quick questions, and get a summer reset plan that protects your energy while helping you feel prepared.
Help me make a low-pressure summer reset plan as a teacher.
I want to rest first, reflect on the past school year, and only prepare for next year in ways that are truly worth my time.
Ask me a few questions, then create a realistic plan that protects my summer while helping me feel ready.
Codex Summer Challenge
Turn messy notes into a clean tracker
Pick one messy pile from daily life: meeting notes, errands, receipts, project ideas, house tasks, reading notes, or a running list of things you keep forgetting.
Ask Codex to turn it into a simple tracker you can actually reuse.
Starter prompt
Help me turn these messy notes into a clean tracker.
I want the smallest useful version I can test today.
Use the files or notes I provide, suggest columns, clean up categories, and give me a reusable version.
Inside Track
Use image generation to compare ideas
Don’t start with “make me an image.” Start with the learning goal, then ask ChatGPT for three visual directions you can compare.
This works well for lesson visuals, slide concepts, classroom handouts, or newsletter graphics.
I want to create a simple educational visual [about ...].
Give me three directions: one metaphor, one diagram, and one real-world scene. Explain what each helps students understand, what could be misleading, and recommend the clearest option.
Then turn it into an image-generation prompt.
Learning with OpenAI
Support Family Conversations With Voice Mode
This week’s learning pick is Support Family Conversations With Voice Mode, on OpenAI Academy.
Voice Mode can help teachers and school staff have a more natural back-and-forth conversation with ChatGPT by speaking out loud instead of typing. One practical K-12 use case is translation during a family conversation, especially when a teacher and caregiver do not share the same primary language.
Quick Links
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Useful resource.
But one thing education will eventually have to separate is:
Prompt quality ≠ learning quality.
A student can write an excellent prompt and still not understand the subject.
The next challenge is not only teaching students how to get better AI outputs.
It's helping them verify, explain, apply, and defend what they learned from those outputs.
That is where real understanding starts.