Facing Off with Facial Recognition
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.
First-Year Composition
AI Algorithms: How Well Do They Know You?
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.
How AI Bias Impacts Our Lives
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.
Understanding AI Bias
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.
AI Chatbots: Who’s Behind the Screen?
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.
AI’s Impact on the Environment
This activity explores AI’s impact on the environment, asking students to write analytical essays on the environmental costs and benefits of AI technologies.
Uncovering Deepfakes
Students will analyze various examples of deepfakes, discuss their implications, and learn to apply strategies to discern authentic from manipulated content.
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.
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.
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.
Helping Students Check for Bias in AI Outputs
Students ask probing questions of AI outputs to test their validity and reliability.
Guiding Students to Assess the Merits of Artificial Intelligence Tools
Students critically evaluate the outputs of AI tools, such as ChatGPT, by comparing them to human-generated responses.
Sentence Doctor
Students diagnose and correct common sentence problems in their writing by identifying symptoms, understanding errors, proposing remedies, and reflecting on the learning process, with optional use of generative AI tools for assistance.
Date My Topic
Students conduct preliminary research to assess the interest, relevance, and manageability of a chosen topic before committing to a long-term project, by setting criteria, searching for mainstream and scholarly views, and reflecting on how to refine the topic.
GenAI Platform Privacy Impact Assessment & Remediation
Students conduct a comprehensive analysis of privacy impacts, which involves writing thorough assessments that consider various aspects of data security and user privacy within AI systems.
AI Literacy: Real-World Cautionary Tales
Students analyze real-world case studies that illustrate the potential pitfalls and ethical considerations of AI applications, enhancing their understanding of AI’s impact on society.
Variation in the Writing Outputs of First-year Writing Students and Generative AI
Students compare their writing to that generated by AI, analyzing differences in style, coherence, and quality.
Fact-Checking Auto-Generated AI Hype
Students critically evaluate the claims made by AI-generated text, distinguishing between accurate information and exaggerated hype.
My Summer with ChatGPT
The assignment emphasizes creative storytelling by encouraging students to co-create stories with ChatGPT, and then they document their interactions with AI in a reflective journal, analyzing their learning experiences and the impact of AI on their writing development.
Uses, Benefits, and Limitations of AI Chatbots: Implementing ChatGPT in the First-Year Writing Classroom
Students receive instant feedback on their writing from ChatGPT, allowing them to revise and improve their drafts based on the AI’s suggestions. Students then reflect on their experience using ChatGPT, analyzing its impact on their writing process and understanding its strengths and limitations.
Automated Aid or Offloading Close Reading? Student Perspectives on AI Reading Assistants
The assignment encourages students to critically evaluate AI tools, considering their benefits and limitations, and developing a nuanced understanding of their impact on the reading process.
More is Less?: Using Generative AI for Idea Generation and Diversification in Early Writing Processes
This assignment leverages generative AI to assist students in generating a wide range of ideas during the early stages of the writing process, enhancing their creativity and brainstorming capabilities.
Developing Media and Information Literacy through Dialogues about AI
This assignment encourages students to engage in meaningful dialogues about artificial intelligence, fostering a deeper understanding of its implications and applications.