Teaching Writing Across the Curriculum with AI
Writing Across the Curriculum Assignments, Classroom Activities, and Educational Resources for Higher Education
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.
Students will analyze various examples of deepfakes, discuss their implications, and learn to apply strategies to discern authentic from manipulated content.
Students participate in a simulated Model UN or Model Congress, where they draft and debate resolutions. The activity emphasizes persuasive writing, research skills, and the ability to articulate and defend positions clearly and effectively.
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.
The activity helps teachers use AI to create a time travel narrative for students.
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.
This assignment allows students to engage with AI-generated characters, providing a dynamic method for exploring and understanding character motivations and behaviors.
Students reflect on ethical considerations in the context of communication and technology by comparing ideas in an Immanual Kant essay to current events related to artificial intelligence.
The assignment emphasizes collaboration with AI tools to enhance creativity and innovation in design, allowing students to explore how AI can contribute to the narrative creation process.
This activity provides an interactive and engaging approach where students can play with AI tools and explore GANs and discrimnators through activities like a password guessing game and painting with a generator.
This assignment teaches students how data becomes output in AI models and highlighting the presence of human biases in datasets. By exploring drawing in Google Quick, Draw!, students learn core AI ideas in a fun and interactive way.
Students create personas and engage in role-playing interviews with ChatGPT, simulating real-world scenarios and making the learning experience more interactive and engaging.
Students use ChatGPT to find definitions, synonyms, and antonyms, helping them expand their vocabulary and improve their writing with more precise word choices.
This assignment encourages students to revise AI-generated text to make it more rhetorical, focusing on purpose, audience, and persuasion, thus enhancing their understanding and application of rhetorical principles.
This activity provides a thorough introduction to deepfakes, including definitions, how they work, and their impact on society, making it accessible even for those with no background knowledge. Students then engage in hands-on activities such as detecting deepfakes and creating their own, supplemented by videos and discussions to reinforce learning.
Students use ChatGPT to engage actively with poetry, facilitating a deeper understanding of figurative language and interpretation.
Students use ChatGPT to summarize longer texts, enabling them to quickly grasp the main ideas and focus on higher-order thinking and deeper analysis.
This policy statement from the National Art Education Association emphasizes the need for ethical and responsible integration of AI tools in the Arts classroom.
The assignment encourages students to engage with technology by creating interactive paper circuits, combining traditional paper-based materials with modern electronics to enhance learning.
Students begin by collaboratively analyzing implementations of text generators, such as Christopher Strachey’s Love Letter Generator. Next, students work in groups to create non-executable conceptual programs designed to produce new instances of chosen genres.
Students engage in sustained conversations with AI chatbots like ChatGPT, analyzing the bots’ writing and thinking patterns. The assignment prompts students to consider the ethical implications of using AI chatbots, including issues related to plagiarism, authorship, and the potential displacement of human labor.
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.
Students explore and reflect on algorithmic accountability through a speculative scenario where an AI called Professor Bot grades entrance essays.
Students reflect on their personal histories and preferences by participating in an interactive survey. These responses are then analyzed using text generation models to explore how AI interprets and predicts social identities, highlighting the biases and assumptions inherent in AI technology.