Create a Time Travel Guide with an AI Chatbot
The activity helps teachers use AI to create a time travel narrative for students.
Text Generation
Summarize Any Text Using an AI Chatbot
This activity involves using AI tools to summarize text, helping students develop skills in condensing information while retaining key points.
“Help Me Understand” Any Text with an AI Chatbot
Through this activity, students engage with AI chatbots to deepen their understanding of complex concepts or issues. The same strategy can also be used to help students to understand readings.
Create College Essay Topic Ideas Using an AI Chatbot
This activity guides students through brainstorming and developing college essay ideas, helping them enhance their writing skills, critical thinking, and creativity.
Create Research Project Ideas Using an AI Chatbot
In this activity, students explore various research project ideas using AI to brainstorm more specific topics.
Break Down Goals Into Objectives with an AI Chatbot
Students break their writing goals down into manageable objectives using AI tools. The activity encourages detailed planning and organization, enabling students to tackle complex writing tasks with a clear, step-by-step approach.
Generate SMART Goals with an AI Chatbot
This activity helps students create specific, measurable, achievable, relevant, and time-bound (SMART) goals for their writing projects, enhancing their planning and execution of writing tasks.
Create Creative Writing Assignments with an AI Chatbot
The assignment leverages AI tools to inspire and guide teachers as they create unique creative writing assignments.
The “AI Sandwich” Assignment
Students write a text with AI assistance, followed by revising it without AI, and finally reflecting on the process.
Generative AI Op-Ed Assignment
Students prompt AI to write a 750-word op-ed, conduct a thorough fact-check and critique, and then rewrite the op-ed with accurate sources and improved arguments.
Evaluating and Improving AI’s Response
Students evaluate and improve a ChatGPT-generated response, identifying superficial elements, addressing missing points, and elaborating using class material. By varying the question given to the AI text generator, you can customize this assignment to any course.
Adding ChatGPT and DALL-E to the Research Process
Students use ChatGPT to produce an essay addressing their problem statement and research question, focusing on exploring the tool’s capabilities in generating initial ideas.
Writing Humor
Students use ChatGPT to generate an essay based on their original premise, including a specified word count, humor elements, and key details.
Museum Label Writing
This assignment focuses on developing students’ skills in writing compelling museum labels by using AI-generated content as a starting point. Students analyze ceramic objects, generate prompts for ChatGPT, critique the AI-generated labels, and reflect on the writing process.
Identifying and Understanding Generative AI
Students identify the AI-generated piece from a set of three texts, developing their ability to discern subtle differences in writing styles and content.
AI as Learner
Students engage with AI to learn new concepts tailored to their individual needs. They use the experience to receive and integrate feedback from the AI on their reflections and learning progress.
AI as Feedback Generator
Students submit their writing to an AI tool to receive feedback on various aspects, such as clarity, coherence, and grammar.
AI as Personal Tutor
The activity involves using AI as a personal tutor to enhance students’ learning experiences. It includes generating AI responses, evaluating their effectiveness, and reflecting on the learning process.
Critical Evaluation of AI Outputs
This assignment asks students to critically evaluate a response from AI by generating a question, examining the response, and writing a short analytical essay.
Meaningful Writing in the Age of Generative Artificial Intelligence
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.
Mastering Structure and Organization in Writing
This assignment engages students in dynamic writing exercises, emphasizes peer review for constructive feedback and enhances their technical writing skills and collaborative abilities.
Giving AI Ears: AI Roleplay Feedback in Oral Presentations
This assignment integrates AI transcription tools into writing activities, emphasizing the importance of inclusivity, critical evaluation of AI accuracy and refining transcriptions into polished documents.
Teaching Students How to Use AI Responsibly
Students input their old essays into AI tools to receive feedback and learn to discern between good and bad advice. They also learn about paraphrasing versus plagiarism.
Using Character Chatbots in English Class
This assignment allows students to engage with AI-generated characters, providing a dynamic method for exploring and understanding character motivations and behaviors.