Fact-Checking Auto-Generated AI Hype
Students critically evaluate the claims made by AI-generated text, distinguishing between accurate information and exaggerated hype.
First-Year Composition
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.
Navigating the New Frontier of Generative AI in Peer Review and Academic Writing
This assignment explores the use of generative AI tools in the peer review process, allowing students to leverage AI for providing constructive feedback and enhancing the quality of academic writing.
Using Generative AI in the Music History Classroom
This assignment uses generative AI to help students explore and analyze different music styles and historical contexts, providing an innovative approach to studying music history.
Pushing Past the First Draft: Exercises in Revision
This assignment focuses on the importance of revision in the writing process, guiding students through multiple stages of refining their drafts to improve clarity, coherence, and overall quality.
Working Alongside, Not Against, AI Writing Tools in the Composition Classroom: A Dialectical Retrospective
This assignment emphasizes the use of AI writing tools to enhance students’ writing processes, encouraging them to explore and leverage these technologies effectively in their compositions.
Revisioning a Bibliography Assignment to Center Discovery and Critical Source Engagement
The assignment shifts the focus from traditional bibliography compilation to a discovery-centered approach, encouraging students to explore and engage deeply with sources.
How GANs (Generative Adversarial Networks) Work
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.
AI & Drawing
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.
Study: Summarize Long Articles
Students use ChatGPT to distill complex readings into easily comprehensible language, allowing them to absorb and understand the material more fully. This critical evaluation process hones their analytical skills, ensuring they understand the material deeply and can assess the accuracy and relevance of summaries.
Generate: Poetry as Application
This assignment leverages poetry to teach key concepts from various subjects, particularly STEM, by incorporating poetic devices like metaphors.
Generate: Elaboration
ChatGPT helps students elaborate on their work by providing step-by-step processes, pros and cons, and compare-and-contrast scenarios, enhancing their understanding and depth of analysis.
Writing: Holistic Editing
ChatGPT helps students adopt a holistic approach to editing by checking for grammatical errors, consistency, tone, style, and structure, ensuring a thorough review of their work.
Writing: Improve Prose
Using ChatGPT, students receive sample essays of varying quality, with annotations explaining what makes each essay poor, good, or excellent, helping them understand the standards for their writing. ChatGPT suggests specific improvements and helps students develop their writing skills in standard academic English or the required language.
Writing: Analyze Readability and Tone
Using ChatGPT as part of a triangle peer review system provides an additional layer of feedback, ensuring essays are reviewed for readability, clarity, and tone with unbiased, factual responses.
Writing: Grammar and Syntax Check
ChatGPT checks for grammatical errors, sentence structure, and other writing elements in a single output, streamlining the proofreading process for students.
Writing: Burstiness
ChatGPT helps students improve their writing by increasing the variability of word choice and sentence structure, making their prose more engaging and sophisticated.
Writing: Perplexity
Students use ChatGPT to overcome writer’s block by filling in incomplete thoughts and generating ideas, making the writing process smoother and less intimidating.
Writing: Improve Connections between Claims and Evidence
Students use ChatGPT to analyze their claims and evidence for hidden assumptions, ensuring that their arguments are logical and universally understandable.
Writing: Improve Transitions
ChatGPT helps create interactive games that teach students how to use transitions effectively, transforming learning from a traditional mode into a fun, game-based activity.