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.
Undergraduate
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.
Evaluate: Logical Fallacies
Students create arguments using ChatGPT and identify any logical fallacies present in the generated content. Students provide a detailed explanation of how the identified logical fallacies occurred and suggest ways to prevent them.
Evaluate: ChatGPT’s Predictions and Extrapolations
Students generate predictions using ChatGPT and critically assess the output. The assignment emphasizes an analytical approach to evaluating hypothetical scenarios generated by ChatGPT. Students must go beyond simple fact-checking and use reasoned analysis to diagnose the plausibility of the predictions.
Evaluate: Soundness of the Argument
Students analyze how facts are assembled into an argument, focusing on the validity of the connective logic. They are encouraged to look beyond the individual facts and assess whether the conclusions drawn are logically supported by the premises.
Evaluate: Hallucinated Sources
Students verify the existence of quoted sources provided by ChatGPT, using the institution’s library website. This activity ensures that students learn to critically assess AI-generated content and confirm its authenticity.
Evaluate: Correctness
The assignment examines the inherent weaknesses of large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT, emphasizing the importance of not relying on them unquestioningly. It highlights how these models mimic speech without true understanding and can produce convincingly false information.
Search: Seminal Scholars, Studies, and Other Materials
The assignment teaches students to use ChatGPT to identify significant scholars, studies, and materials within a given field, providing a foundational understanding of important contributors and key texts in the subject area.
Search: Explanations for Wrong Answers
By using ChatGPT to identify and correct misconceptions, students can clarify their understanding of complex topics, ensuring that incorrect knowledge does not impede future learning and comprehension.
Search: Narrowing Search Results
The assignment teaches students to use quotation marks and Boolean operators (AND, OR, NOT) to narrow down search results effectively, ensuring they receive precise information tailored to their specific needs.
Prompt Engineering Series
This series of activities works through strategies for prompt engineering, from basic choices to more sophisticated strategies. Use the activities one-by-one with students or point students to a specific strategy when they need to improve their prompt writing.
Prompt Engineering: New Chat
By requiring students to start a new chat for unrelated questions, the assignment demonstrates the value of resetting the chat history to obtain unbiased and “pure” responses, teaching them to manage context effectively in AI interactions.