Writing Humor
Students use ChatGPT to generate an essay based on their original premise, including a specified word count, humor elements, and key details.
Assignments
Museum Label Writing
This assignment focuses on developing students’ skills in writing compelling museum labels by using AI-generated content as a starting point. Students analyze ceramic objects, generate prompts for ChatGPT, critique the AI-generated labels, and reflect on the writing process.
AI as Personal Tutor
The activity involves using AI as a personal tutor to enhance students’ learning experiences. It includes generating AI responses, evaluating their effectiveness, and reflecting on the learning process.
Critical Evaluation of AI Outputs
This assignment asks students to critically evaluate a response from AI by generating a question, examining the response, and writing a short analytical essay.
Meaningful Writing in the Age of Generative Artificial Intelligence
Students examine the music and social media presence of singers that they know well and compare their findings to the responses the ChatGPT provides about the singers.
Mastering Structure and Organization in Writing
This assignment engages students in dynamic writing exercises, emphasizes peer review for constructive feedback and enhances their technical writing skills and collaborative abilities.
Giving AI Ears: AI Roleplay Feedback in Oral Presentations
This assignment integrates AI transcription tools into writing activities, emphasizing the importance of inclusivity, critical evaluation of AI accuracy and refining transcriptions into polished documents.
Teaching Students How to Use AI Responsibly
Students input their old essays into AI tools to receive feedback and learn to discern between good and bad advice. They also learn about paraphrasing versus plagiarism.
Using Character Chatbots in English Class
This assignment allows students to engage with AI-generated characters, providing a dynamic method for exploring and understanding character motivations and behaviors.
Helping Students Check for Bias in AI Outputs
Students ask probing questions of AI outputs to test their validity and reliability.
Incorporating AI Art Generation in the Classroom
This assignment emphasizes the importance of a rich descriptive vocabulary in art. Additionally, students learn to recognize and report biases in AI-generated art.
Guiding Students to Assess the Merits of Artificial Intelligence Tools
Students critically evaluate the outputs of AI tools, such as ChatGPT, by comparing them to human-generated responses.
Generative AI: The Voice of the Other
Students compare their own writing with AI-generated texts to understand their unique writing voice, identify differences in vocabulary, tone, and style, and apply this knowledge to enhance their writing authenticity.
GenAI Platform Privacy Impact Assessment & Remediation
Students conduct a comprehensive analysis of privacy impacts, which involves writing thorough assessments that consider various aspects of data security and user privacy within AI systems.
Collaborative Research with ChatGPT
Students conduct a rhetorical analysis of the outputs generated by ChatGPT, critically evaluating the AI’s responses and the effectiveness of their own writing in eliciting meaningful and accurate information.
Translinguo: Critically Making Chatbot Prototypes by Learning How to Write Generative AI prompts
Students engage in the hands-on development of chatbot prototypes, applying their prompt writing skills to create functional and responsive AI applications.
Rhetorical Prompt Engineering
Students develop their rhetorical analysis skills by examining and creating prompts, learning how to craft questions that elicit thoughtful and effective responses. Their revision work focuses on documents related to the Three Mile Island nuclear disaster.
Writing for Career Readiness: Engaging ChatGPT to Develop Resume Bullet Points
Students learn how to tailor their resume bullet points to specific job descriptions and then participate in a peer review process with class members.
The “First Pass, Second Pass” Strategy of AI and Traditional Methods of Data Transcription in Qualitative Research
Students use AI tools to perform the initial transcription of qualitative data, and then they manually verify and correct the AI-generated transcriptions. The assignment concludes with discussion of the differences between the two methods of transcription.
From Consumer to Creator: Analyzing and Producing Machine-Made Stories
Students first analyze stories generated by AI, developing their ability to assess the strengths and weaknesses of machine-made narratives. Next, they create their own stories using AI, allowing them to explore the creative process from a technological perspective.
Writing Imagery: Multimodal AIs in History and Digital Art
Students engage in multimodal composition, blending written text with digital images, sounds, and other media forms to create a rich, layered project. Students also conduct in-depth historical research to inform their creative work
My Summer with ChatGPT
The assignment emphasizes creative storytelling by encouraging students to co-create stories with ChatGPT, and then they document their interactions with AI in a reflective journal, analyzing their learning experiences and the impact of AI on their writing development.
Wrestling with A.I.
Students first read and reflect on articles on the social implications of AI and then participate in class discussions of the ethical dilemmas that AI presents. Additional ideas in the chapter include asking students to play with predictive text and to write position statements on the use of AI.
Co-Creating Intersectional Design Narratives with AI
The assignment emphasizes collaboration with AI tools to enhance creativity and innovation in design, allowing students to explore how AI can contribute to the narrative creation process.