Teaching Writing Across the Curriculum with AI
Writing Across the Curriculum Assignments, Classroom Activities, and Educational Resources for Higher Education
This assignment explores the use of generative AI tools in the peer review process, allowing students to leverage AI for providing constructive feedback and enhancing the quality of academic writing.
This collection of activities were part of a series of workshops on AI literacy, touching on tools, prompt writing, and more. The activities can be used individually or as a full series.
Students critically analyze the role and impact of AI in the art world, examining ethical, social, and artistic implications to develop a nuanced perspective on AI-generated content.
This workshop teaches participants how to recognize and mitigate biases in AI algorithms and data, ensuring fairness in AI systems by addressing issues such as demographic parity and equal opportunity.
This assignment uses AI tools to assist students in crafting found poetry, providing an innovative approach to exploring language and poetic forms through technology.
This assignment explores the use of ChatGPT to generate chemistry practice problems, providing students with a tool to enhance their problem-solving skills and deepen their understanding of chemistry concepts.
This assignment focuses on the importance of revision in the writing process, guiding students through multiple stages of refining their drafts to improve clarity, coherence, and overall quality.
This assignment emphasizes the use of AI writing tools to enhance students’ writing processes, encouraging them to explore and leverage these technologies effectively in their compositions.
This activity uses the AI Explainpaper tool to help students break down and understand complex journal articles, making advanced academic texts more accessible and comprehensible.
The assignment provides a thorough introduction to AI concepts, covering the history, development, and current applications of AI technology.
This assignment provides a comprehensive introduction to prompt engineering, explaining its significance in guiding AI outputs and teaching students how to craft effective prompts for AI tools.
The assignment guides students in exploring a variety of AI research tools, allowing them to learn the different functionalities and applications of each tool in the research process.
This assignment incorporates the use of ChatGPT to help students understand the process of information creation, highlighting the practical applications of AI in academic research and library instruction.
The assignment guides students to thoroughly evaluate different search tools, including Google Scholar, AI tools like ChatGPT and Elicit, and academic databases.
Students compare and contrast information obtained from free generative AI tools and subscription databases, critically assessing the completeness and trustworthiness of the information provided by generative AI tools
The assignment provides a detailed framework for evaluating the credibility and reliability of sources generated by ChatGPT, helping students develop critical thinking skills and discernment in using AI-generated content.
Students are provided with a comprehensive overview of artificial intelligence, covering its history, current applications, and future implications, which equips them with a broad understanding of the field.
Students explore and debate the ethical considerations and practical implications of using AI and detection tools in real-world contexts.
The assignment provides an extensive overview of copyright laws relevant to AI-generated content, including discussion of Creative Commons licensing.
The assignment includes activities that actively engage students with GenAI tools to brainstorm and refine research questions.
The assignment uses the cake-making analogy to explain the importance of setting guidelines and ethics for generative AI.
This assignment highlights how AI can process large datasets much faster than humans, aiding environmentalists in protecting wildlife. By analyzing camera trap and satellite data, AI helps researchers make informed decisions and conservation plans.
This assignment teaches students how data becomes output in AI models and highlighting the presence of human biases in datasets. By exploring drawing in Google Quick, Draw!, students learn core AI ideas in a fun and interactive way.
By demonstrating how to use ChatGPT to retrieve forgotten terms, students learn valuable memory retrieval techniques. They understand how to describe the features of the term they are trying to recall, which helps in better communication and cognitive processing.