By Steve Robert – ICT in Schools Team

Welcome to Issue 2 of The Prompt, providing tactical, time-saving edtech guidance across our South Tyneside community. This weekly briefing covers everything from critical national safety policy changes to simple lesson plans designed to save you hours of structural prep time.

📢 Setting Action: Please share this weekly tech brief with colleagues in your educational setting!

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🛡️ Item 1: Protecting Your Setting’s Images from AI Manipulation

The “Deepfake” Risk: Why School Photos Need an AI Upgrade.

The UK Online Harms Early Warning Working Group has published urgent best-practice guidance addressing image exploitation risks associated with AI image manipulation. This technical document details the responsible publication, sharing, and protection of photographic media and video files featuring children across school websites and official institutional social media channels.

What the national guidance covers:

  • Actionable security protocols to defend young people’s online identities and imagery.
  • An evaluation of the emergent risks when publishing student photos publicly online.
  • A clear action roadmap for Senior Leadership Teams to audit.
  • Direct reporting instructions on what to do if student profiles are altered, misused, or abused by external users.

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🎵 Item 2: Prompt of the Week – Create Catchy Classroom Jingles

Transform your lesson plans into an energetic pop track or custom song in under 30 seconds! Using the Music feature inside the Gemini app, teachers can easily generate 30-second audio cues with full structural control over genre style and vocal delivery.

📋 The Template Prompt:

“You are an expert music producer. Create an upbeat, 30-second [Musical Style] track about [Topic Here]. Make the vocals energetic and easy for [Year Group] to sing along to, with a moderate tempo and catchy lyrics.”

💡 The Prompt in Action (Geometry Focus):

Try copying and pasting this exact text directly into Gemini to build a vibrant math lesson starter:

“You are an expert music producer. Create an upbeat, 30-second pop track about how to find the area of a triangle based on the UK Maths curriculum for UKS2. Make the vocals energetic and easy for Year 6 to sing along to, with a moderate tempo and catchy lyrics.”

Want to review an example track before you generate your own? Click here to listen to our custom “Triangle Trick” Demo Track.

📖 Item 3: Emoji Literacy Stories via the Gemini Storybook

You can use standard device emojis to serve as the narrative engine for creative writing and literacy blocks. By using the specialized Storybook Gem inside Gemini, teachers can turn arbitrary strings of emojis into structured children’s short stories.

For instance, evaluate the exact prompt string used to generate our short story model, “The Crab Who Danced on Ice”:

“Make a 200-word children’s short story for 10-year-olds based on these 5 emojis: 🦀👸✨🩰☃️”

Once generated by the Gem, you can listen to the output text directly inside the browser window, or download it as a print-ready PDF book for your classroom library corner. You can easily scale this workload trick by varying vocabulary lists, maximum word counts, or structural parameters to fit your current target term topic.

💡 Windows Keyboard Shortcut: If you are building prompts on a Windows desktop, press the Windows Key + . (Full Stop) to pull up your visual emoji picker layout immediately!

🗣️ We Value Your Insights!

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For direct curriculum support questions, connect with Steve Robert at [email protected].