Teaching Writing Across the Curriculum with AI
Writing Across the Curriculum Assignments, Classroom Activities, and Educational Resources for Higher Education
This lesson plan helps students understand the impacts of AI bias on society. Through critical thinking exercises and discussions, students learn about AI bias, its negative effects, and how to address and report these issues.
This lesson plan helps students understand AI bias through practical exercises and discussions. By exploring training and testing data, students learn how biases can be introduced into AI systems and develop critical thinking and writing skills by analyzing and reflecting on these concepts.
Students test ChatGPT’s capabilities by asking it a range of questions, verifying its responses, and sharing their findings.
Students explore the abilities and limitations of AI chatbots like ChatGPT through creating and recording a podcast interview. Students will analyze the role of AI in information-providing contexts and compare it with human expertise.
This activity explores the dual-use nature of AI facial recognition technology through research and creative categorization. Students will develop critical writing skills by analyzing and presenting the ethical implications and societal impact of facial recognition.
This activity engages students in understanding and addressing the impact of AI-generated deepfakes through creating a press release. The focus is on developing fact-based, balanced written communication aimed at educating the general public about deepfakes.
This activity involves students debating the role of common sense in AI and its importance in decision-making. Through structured debates, students will explore and argue different perspectives on AI’s capabilities and limitations, enhancing their critical thinking and persuasive writing skills.
This project teaches students to critically evaluate information in the age of AI to identify, create, and disseminate information and disinformation.
Students examine the benefits and drawbacks of various AI technologies by exploring ethical considerations, stakeholder impacts, and personal implications of AI use.
This project engages students in exploring how AI technologies impact school and work life. Through various activities, students learn about AI’s ethical implications, the importance of diversity in AI development, and future workforce skills.
The activity involves using AI to generate concrete examples to explain abstract concepts, making them more relatable for students.
This activity introduces students to AI and its applications in writing as they interview a chatbot to learn more about how the AI tool works.
This activity guides students on using AI responsibly in their writing and research by evaluating AI output using the mnemonic EVERY.
Students will analyze various examples of deepfakes, discuss their implications, and learn to apply strategies to discern authentic from manipulated content.
Students experiment with generative AI and critically evaluate its limitations and implications on academic work. Through this process, students learn to distinguish between reliable and fabricated sources.
Students will identify inaccuracies in ChatGPT’s responses and provide corrections, enhancing their understanding of disciplinary concepts.
Students examine the music and social media presence of singers that they know well and compare their findings to the responses the ChatGPT provides about the singers.
Students ask probing questions of AI outputs to test their validity and reliability.
This assignment emphasizes the importance of a rich descriptive vocabulary in art. Additionally, students learn to recognize and report biases in AI-generated art.
Students conduct a comprehensive analysis of privacy impacts, which involves writing thorough assessments that consider various aspects of data security and user privacy within AI systems.
Students critically evaluate the claims made by AI-generated text, distinguishing between accurate information and exaggerated hype.
This collection of activities were part of a series of workshops on AI literacy, touching on tools, prompt writing, and more. The activities can be used individually or as a full series.
This workshop teaches participants how to recognize and mitigate biases in AI algorithms and data, ensuring fairness in AI systems by addressing issues such as demographic parity and equal opportunity.
The assignment guides students to thoroughly evaluate different search tools, including Google Scholar, AI tools like ChatGPT and Elicit, and academic databases.