The acronym and initialism that I designed as an example, P.S.F or psf (it stands for Ponder, Search and Suppose, then Find) is to let students know what an assignment requires. Psf is to be utilized for research and creating conceptualizations in English. The intent is to use it to help determine when learners are intentionally engaged in an assignment and we are not utilizing AI to generate concepts before we generate our own ideas. We can use AI to help us search. We can also use AI after we have gathered all of our data. Hopefully the design is cute!

It’s also a fun moment to address the distinction between an acronym and initialism. “Psf” is meant to be said as a word or utterance. It means “oh man, do I have to?” or “of course!” depending on the context. This acronym can also be said using initialism P S F.

A super fun project is to discover acronyms and initialisms commonly used in the English language. A presentCHIA Community Learning activity is to make a display of favorite & important acronyms to present and to design one yourself if you are up for it! Discovering obscure and fascinating acronyms and initialisms could be a lot of fun too.