Teaching Writing Across the Curriculum with AI
Writing Across the Curriculum Assignments, Classroom Activities, and Educational Resources for Higher Education
This project engages students in exploring artistic styles and how AI neural networks can learn and apply these styles to create new artwork. Through this activity, students enhance their understanding of AI, machine learning, and artistic expression.
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.
This activity involves students using AI tools like ChatGPT to explain concepts, receiving instant feedback, and refining their understanding.
The activity asks students to generate visual summaries of specific topics using AI tools.
The activity engages students in exploring the ethical considerations and policy implications of AI technology.
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 explores AI’s impact on the environment, asking students to write analytical essays on the environmental costs and benefits of AI technologies.
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.
The activity helps teachers use AI to create a time travel narrative for students.
This activity guides students through brainstorming and developing college essay ideas, helping them enhance their writing skills, critical thinking, and creativity.
The assignment leverages AI tools to inspire and guide teachers as they create unique creative writing assignments.
Students write a text with AI assistance, followed by revising it without AI, and finally reflecting on the process.
In this activity, students generate a reading list on a given topic using an AI text generator and then verify the accuracy of the sources.
Students will identify inaccuracies in ChatGPT’s responses and provide corrections, enhancing their understanding of disciplinary concepts.
Students prompt AI to write a 750-word op-ed, conduct a thorough fact-check and critique, and then rewrite the op-ed with accurate sources and improved arguments.
Students evaluate and improve a ChatGPT-generated response, identifying superficial elements, addressing missing points, and elaborating using class material. By varying the question given to the AI text generator, you can customize this assignment to any course.