Writing: Improve Topic Sentences
Students use ChatGPT to generate and refine topic sentences based on their thesis statement and key points, ensuring clarity and direction in their writing.
Undergraduate
Writing: First Draft
Students use ChatGPT to create an outline and then build their first draft, ensuring they have a clear structure with an introduction, body, and conclusion.
Writing: Create Counterarguments
Students use ChatGPT to simulate debates, helping them understand and develop counterarguments, which enhances their critical thinking and argumentation skills.
Writing: Generate an Outline
ChatGPT helps students organize their ideas into a coherent outline, providing a solid framework for their writing and ensuring all key points are logically ordered.
Writing: Further Develop the Thesis
Students practice refining their thesis statements by using ChatGPT as a sounding board, encouraging iterative improvements from initial ideas to more complex arguments.
Writing: Generate a Thesis
ChatGPT provides students with potential thesis ideas, helping them brainstorm and refine their own arguments while learning to avoid direct copy-pasting to maintain academic integrity.
Writing: Request Definitions, Synonyms, and Antonyms
Students use ChatGPT to find definitions, synonyms, and antonyms, helping them expand their vocabulary and improve their writing with more precise word choices.
Writing: Overcoming Writer’s Block
ChatGPT helps students overcome writer’s block by generating an initial draft of an opening paragraph, allowing students to focus on revising and refining rather than starting from scratch.
Writing: Brainstorming a Topic
ChatGPT helps students break down complex topics into smaller, manageable sub-components, aiding in the generation of a clear thesis and logical argument flow across paragraphs.
Analyze: Quantitative Analysis
ChatGPT helps students break down complex topics into smaller, manageable sub-components, aiding in the generation of a clear thesis and logical argument flow across paragraphs. Students in professional writing courses can use these skills as they write memos and reports.
Analyze: Qualitative Analysis
Students utilize ChatGPT to identify repetitions, themes, and categories in texts, leveraging its ability to recognize synonyms and related concepts, even with varied diction.
Analyze: Convert to Conversational Language
Students use ChatGPT to convert complex academic texts into conversational language, making challenging concepts more accessible and understandable. By practicing with ChatGPT, students enhance their ability to explain research and projects to non-experts.
Revising LLM Text to (Re)Discover Rhetoric
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.
GenAI Chatbot Scenarios in Higher Education
The assignment explores the ethical implications of various AI chatbot scenarios. The activity is designed to be conducted in groups, promoting collaborative learning and diverse viewpoints in discussing the ethical considerations of AI technologies.
AI & Deepfakes
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.
Analyze: Poetry and Figurative Language
Students use ChatGPT to engage actively with poetry, facilitating a deeper understanding of figurative language and interpretation.
Analyze: Critique and Interpret
The assignment helps students develop their interpretation skills by engaging with ChatGPT to analyze the structure, themes, and arguments of a text, allowing them to gain a deeper understanding of various texts.
Analyze: Find the Needle in the Haystack
Students develop their ability to craft precise queries for AI tools, learning how to effectively ask for specific pieces of information and improve their research efficiency in handling extensive texts.
NAEA Position Statement on Use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and AI-generated Imagery in Visual Arts Education
This policy statement from the National Art Education Association emphasizes the need for ethical and responsible integration of AI tools in the Arts classroom.
Artificial Intelligence and Mathematics Teaching
This policy, from the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics, highlights the role of AI in enhancing personalized learning, emphasizing the need for teachers to integrate AI ethically while maintaining their pedagogical and relational expertise.
MLA-CCCC Joint Task Force on Writing and AI Working Paper
This policy, from The Modern Language Association (MLA)-Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC) Joint Task Force on Writing and AI, provides a comprehensive overview of the implications of AI in writing and literature education.
Artificial Intelligence Writing Tools in Writing Across the Curriculum Settings
This policy, from the Association for Writing Across the Curriculum (AWAC), emphasizes maintaining authentic writing experiences, integrating AI tools to complement best practices in Writing Across the Curriculum (WAC), and addressing ethical and practical implications of AI use in educational settings.
Evaluate: Bias
Students develop critical evaluation skills by assessing AI outputs for biases, assumptions, and stereotypes.
Evaluate: Write a Rebuttal
Students craft a detailed rebuttal to the AI-generated argument, focusing on different aspects such as the scope, conclusions, and missing evidence.