AI Challenge: Brand New Images with Stable Diffusion
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.
Creative Writing
AI Challenge: Create Your Own Mixtape
In this assignment, students create their own mixtape using Boomy’s AI tools.
AI and Art
This project engages students in exploring artistic styles and how AI neural networks can learn and apply these styles to create new artwork. Through this activity, students enhance their understanding of AI, machine learning, and artistic expression.
Design an AI Agent
This project guides students in designing an AI agent to effectively interact with humans in various disciplines. They will explore the current use of AI in specific fields and develop their own AI agents to address real-world tasks or challenges.
Translate Text to Emojis with an AI Chatbot
Students can use AI chatbots and details from this activity to convert text into emoji sequences and vice versa, enhancing their skills in interpreting and conveying meaning through alternative communication methods.
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.
From Consumer to Creator: Analyzing and Producing Machine-Made Stories
Students first analyze stories generated by AI, developing their ability to assess the strengths and weaknesses of machine-made narratives. Next, they create their own stories using AI, allowing them to explore the creative process from a technological perspective.
Narrative and Text Generation AI
Students engage in creative writing exercises where they collaborate with AI text generation tools to produce narratives. Students analyze the structure and coherence of AI-generated narratives, comparing them to human-written stories to identify strengths and weaknesses.
“Language Weaves Its Tapestry”: Crafting Found Poetry Using AI Tools
This assignment uses AI tools to assist students in crafting found poetry, providing an innovative approach to exploring language and poetic forms through technology.
Generate: Creative Writing as Application
This assignment leverages the power of storytelling to activate sensory, emotional, and cognitive regions of the brain, making content more relevant, memorable, and transferable. By asking students to create characters, build backstory and conflict, and engage in scenes that require understanding of concepts or theories, this assignment enhances learning across various subjects, including biomedical sciences and health professions.
Generate: Poetry as Application
This assignment leverages poetry to teach key concepts from various subjects, particularly STEM, by incorporating poetic devices like metaphors.
Generate: Role Play
Students create personas and engage in role-playing interviews with ChatGPT, simulating real-world scenarios and making the learning experience more interactive and engaging.
Writing: Overcoming Writer’s Block
ChatGPT helps students overcome writer’s block by generating an initial draft of an opening paragraph, allowing students to focus on revising and refining rather than starting from scratch.
Analyze: Poetry and Figurative Language
Students use ChatGPT to engage actively with poetry, facilitating a deeper understanding of figurative language and interpretation.
Analyze: Summarize Longer Texts
Students use ChatGPT to summarize longer texts, enabling them to quickly grasp the main ideas and focus on higher-order thinking and deeper analysis.
Repetition
This assignment serves as a beginner-level programming exercise that introduces students to the concept of iteration using for loops. By writing code that repeats a word or phrase 50,000 times, students gain a fundamental understanding of how loops work in programming.
Who’s Talking: Dada, Machine Writing, and the Found: RiTa.js for Visual Artists and Writers
Students generate text using both analog cut-up techniques and a simple Markov procedure. This exercise introduces them to found art, encouraging them to critically examine issues of property and power in the context of generative text and its sources.
Spellcraft & Translation: Conjuring with AI
Students create “spells,” or poems based on a wish, and then use a large language model (LLM) to generate a corresponding AI-created spell.
Cyborg Texts: A Procedural Creativity Assignment
This assignment engages students in the practice of procedural creativity by encouraging them to play with, hack, or build text generators.
Learning about Text Technology through the LLM Generation of Papers
Students generate a paper focused on a highly specific and recent text technology and reflect on how LLMs influence the writing process and their own writing practices.
Understanding Markov Chains
Students manually apply an algorithm to generate a Markov Chain from a given text extract, providing a concrete and interactive way to understand probabilistic language generation.
Made Not Only By Me: Coauthoring a Children’s Book with Text and Image Generation
Students collaborate in small groups to produce a creative work and then write a reflective piece about their contribution to the project and the group dynamics.
The Grand Exhibition of Prompts
Utilizing a threaded discussion platform, students experiment with AI image-making programs, focusing on the verbal prompts they create. Students are evaluated not only on the quality of their prompts but also on their support and encouragement of other writers.