Teaching Writing Across the Curriculum with AI
Writing Across the Curriculum Assignments, Classroom Activities, and Educational Resources for Higher Education
Students explore how AI-generated text can reflect and adapt to an individual’s writing style. The activity examines the implications of AI-assisted authorship, guiding students in refining their digital writing practices, critically assessing AI-generated content, and maintaining their unique voice while engaging with machine-generated text.
Students discuss the use of disclosure statements for AI-generated content. Students consider how to craft clear and honest statements, enhancing their technical writing skills and understanding of AI ethics.
This activity explores an ethical scenario involving team documentation when a member is absent. Students must evaluate various options and their implications for accuracy, deadlines, and safety.
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.
Students experiment with TikTok’s algorithm to see how effectively they can influence their For You Page (FYP) content.
Students explore how AI systems influence government decision-making and their impact on daily life. By creating infographics, students will explain AI’s role in practical decisions and draw conclusions about AI-based decision-making effects.
This activity involves students exploring AI’s potential in decoding animal communication and designing a mobile app prototype for interspecies communication.
This activity involves students exploring the technology, benefits, and ethical concerns of autonomous vehicles (AVs). Through research and analysis, students will create a policy proposal addressing a specific AV concern and advocate for their proposal.
This activity engages students in understanding and addressing the impact of AI-generated deepfakes through creating a press release. The focus is on developing fact-based, balanced written communication aimed at educating the general public about deepfakes.
Students use AI to simulate reader feedback, apply writing theories, and improve student writing beyond basic grammar checks.
This project helps students compare AI-powered translators with human translation accuracy and apply these tools in real-time conversations. They will develop an understanding of AI in language processing and evaluate its effectiveness in facilitating communication.
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.
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.
This assignment engages students in dynamic writing exercises, emphasizes peer review for constructive feedback and enhances their technical writing skills and collaborative abilities.
This assignment integrates AI transcription tools into writing activities, emphasizing the importance of inclusivity, critical evaluation of AI accuracy and refining transcriptions into polished documents.
Students engage in the hands-on development of chatbot prototypes, applying their prompt writing skills to create functional and responsive AI applications.
Students develop their rhetorical analysis skills by examining and creating prompts, learning how to craft questions that elicit thoughtful and effective responses. Their revision work focuses on documents related to the Three Mile Island nuclear disaster.
Students learn how to tailor their resume bullet points to specific job descriptions and then participate in a peer review process with class members.
Students use AI tools to perform the initial transcription of qualitative data, and then they manually verify and correct the AI-generated transcriptions. The assignment concludes with discussion of the differences between the two methods of transcription.
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.
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.
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.
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.
This assignment integrates AI tools into the collaborative writing process, includes a research component where students investigate the implications of AI in professional communication, and asks students to use their research findings to create a professional document using AI tools.