'Learning bot' vs 'Prompt bot' : Meaning

 To clarify their meanings, I consulted a chatbot just now. 

Here is the answer by Claude: 

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A prompt bot would be a specific type of learning bot that primarily works through providing prompts to guide student thinking. Its main mechanism is offering questions, sentence starters, or thinking cues that scaffold the learning process. For example, a prompt bot might say things like "What would happen if..." or "Can you explain why..." or "Consider the perspective of..."

A learning bot is a broader category that includes any bot designed to facilitate learning. This could include:

• Bots that provide direct instruction or explanations
• Quiz bots that test knowledge through multiple choice questions
• Reference bots that answer student questions directly
• Practice bots that provide problems and check answers
• And yes, prompt bots that guide through questioning

So while all prompt bots are learning bots (they're designed to help students learn), not all learning bots are prompt bots. A learning bot that simply provides definitions when asked, or one that delivers mini-lectures, wouldn't really be a prompt bot since it's not primarily working through prompting strategies.

The distinction matters because the pedagogical approach is different. A prompt bot embodies a more constructivist approach where students build understanding through guided inquiry. Other types of learning bots might use more direct instructional methods. The choice between them would depend on the learning objectives and the teaching philosophy behind their deployment.

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In other words, what I have creating to guide Ss to learn something through a process of scaffolded conversation are prompt bots, and 'learning bots' in a more general sense.