PromptED is a hands-on, interactive AI literacy experience that empowers you to be co-intelligent with AI. If AI still feels like a black box, you’re not alone — and you’re in the right place.

Let’s open it together.

We are an AI-ED consultancy and learning studio grounded in the Science of Learning. We help institutions, educators, and learners develop the mindsets and tools to thrive with AI — responsibly, creatively, and critically.

We aim to move you from a zone of overwhelm to a zone of curiosity and agency.

Whether you’re a university, school district, or education nonprofit, we empower your community of educators and learners by teaching fostering AI literacy across three dimensions:

Functional
(how to leverage AI)

Critical
(how to assess AI)

Rhetorical
(how to co-create with AI)

How It All Began
Dan Be’s passion for AI literacy was sparked by a growing disconnect she witnessed: while tech communities in places like the Bay Area were embracing AI with excitement and ease, many educators she spoke with described it as a mysterious “black box”—intimidating, concerning, and overwhelming. These conversations left her alarmed. If educators couldn’t engage with AI in a responsible and effective way, how could they support and guide learners in navigating its impact on their educational journeys? Driven by the belief that AI should expand human potential—including for those in the humanities, social sciences, and other non-technical fields—she set out to reimagine how educators, learners, and professionals from all backgrounds could access, use, and shape this technology in ways that feel relevant and empowering to them.

Empowering Educators
This past January, she co-designed and co-instructed a course—AI Tools for Learning Design— at the Harvard Graduate School of Arts & Sciences, which was later featured in a piece by Harvard Ed News. The course focused on the functional dimension of AI literacy, immersing diverse, interdisciplinary participants in the hands-on application of AI tools most relevant to learning design. Open to the public, it attracted students from across Harvard and MIT, as well as educators from the Cambridge-Boston area. The interdisciplinary nature of the course fostered a thriving community of practice where participants brought varied perspectives to explore how AI can be responsibly and creatively integrated into their respective educational and professional contexts. A massive shoutout to Blerim Jashari for the exceptionally engaging learning design 👏

Guiding Learners
As a Learning Design Fellow at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, Dan Be co-designed an AI literacy tutorial for all incoming students, a mandatory requirement before starting any coursework. The module introduces what responsible and effective AI use looks like in higher education, explores the nuance between school-wide and course-specific AI policies, and features diverse faculty perspectives to highlight how expectations vary across disciplines. This work reflects a growing need for school-specific and context-aware AI literacy interventions; generic trainings too often fall short in offering the practical guidance and nuanced support learners need to use AI tools responsibly and meaningfully within their fields.

Testimonial #1 from the J-term course on AI Tools for Learning Design — Janis is an EdTech entrepreneur who's working on AI-driven learning solution that democratizes access to quality acting instruction.

Testimonial #2 from the J-term course on AI Tools for Learning Design — Ginger Love Garcia is a middle school English teacher at the International School of Boston.

Testimonial #3 from the J-term course on AI Tools for Learning Design — Anmol Rathore is an alum of the Master of Public Policy program at the Harvard Kennedy School.

Another peek into an AI-ED programming that Dan Be co-designed and facilitated. The workshop on AI-powered Learning Design was hosted at Harvard GSE in November 2024 sponsored by the HGSE AI Literacy Club.

The workshop on Prompt ~~Engineering~~ Design was hosted at the Harvard GSE in October 2024 sponsored by the HGSE AI Literacy Club.

Bridging Worlds
Together with the SundAI Club—an AI hackers collective incubated at Harvard and MIT—Dan Be co-organized the inaugural Ed<>Hack at the MIT Media Lab, a 12-hour design sprint that brought together educators and cutting-edge AI technologists to co-create hyper-contextualized, AI-powered tools addressing real classroom challenges. By combining hands-on experimentation with deep domain expertise, Ed<>Hack embodied the belief that responsible, impactful AI in education must be built with educators—not just for them.

Creating a Community of Practice
Technologists gained invaluable insight from educators with a deep understanding of real classroom challenges, while educators experienced firsthand the creative potential of AI by engaging directly in its application layer. This approach aligns closely with PromptED’s mission to foster AI literacy through hands-on, real-time collaboration. Ed<>Hack is a stellar example of the magic that happens when educators are brought into the design process and EdTech is shaped by deep pedagogical and learning science expertise.

Youth-facing AI Literacy
Passionate about empowering young learners, Dan Be partners with high schools to provide hands-on guidance to teens on how to thrive in the age of AI. She emphasizes the importance of cultivating self-regulation, curiosity, agency, resilience, and critical thinking—core pillars of what she calls the “startup mindset.” Through PromptED, she is launching AI-powered Social Entrepreneurship Fellowship programs that invite high school students to conceptualize and design tools, services, or products that address pressing societal issues. These programs offer a structured and supportive environment for students to harness cutting-edge AI technologies in meaningful and responsible ways.

Dan Be hosting an interactive session on “Learning & Thriving in the Age of AI” at Korea International School in Pangyo, South Korea.

Dan Be Kim is a startup founder turned educational technologist focused on reimagining teaching and learning in the age of AI. A startup enthusiast with an extensive background in product management, she has conceptualized and launched several marketplaces, including a venture-backed PropTech startup in the Bay Area. After arriving at Harvard determined to build evidence-based, AI-powered tools for education, she quickly discovered how overwhelmed and under-supported many educators and learners felt when engaging with this rapidly advancing technology.

Today, Dan Be’s work explores how AI can truly enhance and augment — not replace — human intelligence. Through PromptED, she helps educators and learners develop the intuition, fluency, confidence, and critical judgment needed to collaborate with AI in thoughtful, creative, and human-centered ways.

She currently contributes to research on Inspiring Moral AI Guidance in Education (IMAGINE) at the Harvard Center for Digital Thriving. In her role as an AI Fellow at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, she is helping to onboard ~700 incoming students by equipping them with the skills needed to leverage AI responsibly in their academic work and professional pursuits.

As an educational technologist, she is an active member of both the UNESCO Global Science of Learning Alliance and the Global Science of Learning Education Network (GSoLEN) hosted at UC San Diego, where she advocates for the conscious design of educational technologies grounded in evidence-based Science of Learning principles.

Whether you’re a university, school district, or education nonprofit, we empower your community of educators and learners by teaching fostering AI literacy across three dimensions:

Functional (how to leverage AI)

Functional
(how to leverage AI)

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Rethinking AI.
Artificial Augmented

AI doesn’t have to be a mystery.
Let’s talk.

Designed for
Co-Intelligence