Teaching Writing Across the Curriculum with AI
Writing Across the Curriculum Assignments, Classroom Activities, and Educational Resources for Higher Education
These activity prompts, all written by Traci Gardner, help students explore ethical considerations related to AI in writing. Through structured online discussions, students critically examine the impact of AI on communication, reflecting on its implications in various professional contexts. Each prompt is written so that I (Traci) can slot them into my Canvas course. You can remove the instructions if …
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.
This lesson plan teaches students how AI is trained using data they share online. Through illustrations, discussions, and real-life examples, students learn the importance of data in AI development and enhance their critical thinking and writing skills.
Through discussions, definitions, and reflective activities, students develop a critical understanding of facial recognition and its impact on privacy, enhancing their analytical and writing skills.
This lesson plan teaches students about AI recommendation algorithms and their influence on online content. Through videos, discussions, and reflective exercises, students learn how algorithms shape their online experiences and develop critical thinking and writing skills.
This lesson plan helps students understand the impacts of AI bias on society. Through critical thinking exercises and discussions, students learn about AI bias, its negative effects, and how to address and report these issues.
This lesson plan helps students understand AI bias through practical exercises and discussions. By exploring training and testing data, students learn how biases can be introduced into AI systems and develop critical thinking and writing skills by analyzing and reflecting on these concepts.
This lesson plan introduces students to AI chatbots, their functionalities, and their real-life applications. Through videos, discussions, and interactive activities, students enhance their understanding of AI chatbots and develop critical writing skills by articulating their knowledge and reflections.
In this assignment, students create their own mixtape using Boomy’s AI tools.
Students investigate how Instagram’s AI ranks posts in their feeds.
Students experiment with TikTok’s algorithm to see how effectively they can influence their For You Page (FYP) content.
Students explore methods to fool their phone’s facial recognition technology and reflect on the effectiveness of these methods.
Students test ChatGPT’s capabilities by asking it a range of questions, verifying its responses, and sharing their findings.
This activity provides a decision tree model to guide students in responsible AI use for enhancing their learning. It emphasizes critical engagement, iterative use, and transparency in AI interactions, fostering metacognitive reflection and ethical clarity in writing.
Students use AI to simulate reader feedback, apply writing theories, and improve student writing beyond basic grammar checks.
Students use AI as a tool for generating diverse writing styles, analogies, and explanations.
The activity involves using AI to generate concrete examples to explain abstract concepts, making them more relatable for students.
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 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.
Following the 5 “S” Model, students write prompts designed to elicit detailed and relevant responses from AI, enhancing their understanding of prompt engineering and its impact on communication clarity and content quality.
Students will analyze various examples of deepfakes, discuss their implications, and learn to apply strategies to discern authentic from manipulated content.