Prompt-a-thon
Students engage in a creative “Prompt-a-thon” to explore AI-generated writing prompts that focus on wicked problems facing the local community.
Teaching Writing Across the Curriculum with AI
Writing Across the Curriculum Assignments, Classroom Activities, and Educational Resources for Higher Education
Students engage in a creative “Prompt-a-thon” to explore AI-generated writing prompts that focus on wicked problems facing the local community.
This activity guides students on using AI responsibly in their writing and research by evaluating AI output using the mnemonic EVERY.
This resource “helps students understand how and when to use these [AI] tools wisely and responsibly.” by using a flowchart of possible uses and their academic appropriateness.
Following the 5 “S” Model, students write prompts designed to elicit detailed and relevant responses from AI, enhancing their understanding of prompt engineering and its impact on communication clarity and content quality.
The strategy helps teachers identify Bloom’s Taxonomy goals for a project. They can then use the goals to give students feedback on their projects, helping them develop higher-order thinking and writing skills.
The strategy uses authentic assessments to give students feedback on projects, emphasizing practical relevance, encouraging critical thinking, and providing opportunities for reflective learning.
This assessment strategy uses quizzes to give students feedback on their understanding and retention of key concepts. It focuses on reinforcing learning through immediate feedback, identifying areas for improvement, and promoting mastery of relevant skills.
This strategy demonstrates how teachers can create rubrics with AI to give students detailed feedback on their projects. It focuses on providing specific, actionable feedback, promoting self-assessment, and encouraging continuous improvement in students’ writing skills.
This activity involves using AI tools to summarize text, helping students develop skills in condensing information while retaining key points.
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.
This activity guides students through brainstorming and developing college essay ideas, helping them enhance their writing skills, critical thinking, and creativity.
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.
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.
Students write a text with AI assistance, followed by revising it without AI, and finally reflecting on the process.
In this activity, students generate a reading list on a given topic using an AI text generator and then verify the accuracy of the sources.
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 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.
Students identify the AI-generated piece from a set of three texts, developing their ability to discern subtle differences in writing styles and content.
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.
Teams receive AI-generated coaching to improve their collaborative writing process. The AI provides insights on group dynamics, task allocation, and communication, enhancing the overall quality of the team’s written output.
Students submit their writing to an AI tool to receive feedback on various aspects, such as clarity, coherence, and grammar.
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.
This assignment asks students to critically evaluate a response from AI by generating a question, examining the response, and writing a short analytical essay.
This assignment establishes explicit guidelines for when and how students can use AI, categorized into red, yellow, and green lights.