Teaching Writing Across the Curriculum with AI
Writing Across the Curriculum Assignments, Classroom Activities, and Educational Resources for Higher Education
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 project helps students understand how subject-matter experts classify information and how AI can perform similar classifications to solve real-world problems. By creating a guessing game, students synthesize knowledge from their coursework, making it a great tool for review and end-of-unit synthesis.
Students research ethical business practices, learn about Asimov’s Laws of Robotics, examine the societal impact of AI, and develop their own laws for AI.
Students explore AI applications for addressing environmental challenges. They learn about AI’s role in sustainability and propose AI-powered solutions to local environmental issues, enhancing their research, critical thinking, and presentation skills.
This project teaches students to critically evaluate information in the age of AI to identify, create, and disseminate information and disinformation.
Students examine the benefits and drawbacks of various AI technologies by exploring ethical considerations, stakeholder impacts, and personal implications of AI use.
This project introduces students to how AI chatbots work, focusing on natural language processing. Students learn to develop chatbot models for subject-specific tasks, enhancing their understanding of AI’s role in communication and task automation.
This project engages students in exploring how AI technologies impact school and work life. Through various activities, students learn about AI’s ethical implications, the importance of diversity in AI development, and future workforce skills.
The activity asks students to generate visual summaries of specific topics using AI tools.
The activity involves using AI to generate concrete examples to explain abstract concepts, making them more relatable for students.
The activity engages students in exploring the ethical considerations and policy implications of AI technology.
The activity teaches students to investigate and understand AI chatbot hallucinations.
The activity helps students explore AI’s decision-making processes and its ethical implications. As part of the activity, students play “Celebrity Heads” to compare artificial intelligence to human intelligence.
This activity introduces students to AI and its applications in writing as they interview a chatbot to learn more about how the AI tool works.
Students engage in a creative “Prompt-a-thon” to explore AI-generated writing prompts that focus on wicked problems facing the local community.
This activity guides students on using AI responsibly in their writing and research by evaluating AI output using the mnemonic EVERY.
This resource “helps students understand how and when to use these [AI] tools wisely and responsibly.” by using a flowchart of possible uses and their academic appropriateness.
This activity explores AI’s impact on the environment, asking students to write analytical essays on the environmental costs and benefits of AI technologies.
Students will analyze various examples of deepfakes, discuss their implications, and learn to apply strategies to discern authentic from manipulated content.
The strategy helps teachers identify Bloom’s Taxonomy goals for a project. They can then use the goals to give students feedback on their projects, helping them develop higher-order thinking and writing skills.
The strategy uses authentic assessments to give students feedback on projects, emphasizing practical relevance, encouraging critical thinking, and providing opportunities for reflective learning.
This assessment strategy uses quizzes to give students feedback on their understanding and retention of key concepts. It focuses on reinforcing learning through immediate feedback, identifying areas for improvement, and promoting mastery of relevant skills.
This strategy demonstrates how teachers can create rubrics with AI to give students detailed feedback on their projects. It focuses on providing specific, actionable feedback, promoting self-assessment, and encouraging continuous improvement in students’ writing skills.
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.