Teaching Writing Across the Curriculum with AI
Writing Across the Curriculum Assignments, Classroom Activities, and Educational Resources for Higher Education
This article explores strategies for editing AI-generated text, emphasizing accuracy, completeness, and critical engagement. Students refine AI output through revision, improving coherence, source integration, and rhetorical awareness.
Students use AI to engage in rhetorical argumentation, refining their ability to analyze, respond to, and construct persuasive academic discourse.
Students use AI tools to explore genre conventions across languages, refining multilingual writing skills and enhancing their understanding of rhetorical and cultural differences.
Students examine AI-generated content for ethical concerns, bias, and credibility. This resource encourages critical thinking, ethical awareness, and responsible engagement with AI-assisted writing.
The Critical Media Analysis Project (CMAP) explores how students can critically engage with AI-generated media and text to assess bias, credibility, and ethical implications. The article provides strategies for integrating AI into media analysis, helping students develop critical thinking skills and a deeper understanding of ethical issues in digital writing.
Explores how understanding AI token use can help students refine their writing prompts, analyze AI-generated responses, and develop a more nuanced approach to digital writing.
These activity prompts, all written by Traci Gardner, help students explore ethical considerations related to AI in writing.
Students discuss the use of disclosure statements for AI-generated content. Students consider how to craft clear and honest statements, enhancing their technical writing skills and understanding of AI ethics.
This activity explores an ethical scenario involving team documentation when a member is absent. Students must evaluate various options and their implications for accuracy, deadlines, and safety.
Through discussions, definitions, and reflective activities, students develop a critical understanding of facial recognition and its impact on privacy, enhancing their analytical and writing skills.
This lesson plan teaches students about AI recommendation algorithms and their influence on online content. Through videos, discussions, and reflective exercises, students learn how algorithms shape their online experiences and develop critical thinking and writing skills.
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.
This lesson plan introduces students to AI chatbots, their functionalities, and their real-life applications. Through videos, discussions, and interactive activities, students enhance their understanding of AI chatbots and develop critical writing skills by articulating their knowledge and reflections.
Through writing prompts and sharing their creations, students enhance their creative and technical writing skills while exploring the potential real-life applications of AI-generated art.
Students investigate how Instagram’s AI ranks posts in their feeds.
Students explore methods to fool their phone’s facial recognition technology and reflect on the effectiveness of these methods.
Students explore how AI systems influence government decision-making and their impact on daily life. By creating infographics, students will explain AI’s role in practical decisions and draw conclusions about AI-based decision-making effects.
Students envision the future of medicine through AI innovation by creating a virtual vision board. They will explore how AI has augmented the field of medicine and predict future developments.
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 involves students exploring AI’s potential in decoding animal communication and designing a mobile app prototype for interspecies communication.
This activity involves students exploring the technology, benefits, and ethical concerns of autonomous vehicles (AVs). Through research and analysis, students will create a policy proposal addressing a specific AV concern and advocate for their proposal.
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.