Teaching Writing Across the Curriculum with AI
Writing Across the Curriculum Assignments, Classroom Activities, and Educational Resources for Higher Education
Students receive instant feedback on their writing from ChatGPT, allowing them to revise and improve their drafts based on the AI’s suggestions. Students then reflect on their experience using ChatGPT, analyzing its impact on their writing process and understanding its strengths and limitations.
The assignment encourages students to critically evaluate AI tools, considering their benefits and limitations, and developing a nuanced understanding of their impact on the reading process.
The activities in this article emphasizes the importance of critical media literacy, encouraging students to critically analyze and evaluate the use of generative AI in various media contexts.
This assignment asks students to examine and evaluate documents using generative AI by thinking on successively higher levels to assess the documents.
This assignment uses generative AI to help students explore and analyze different music styles and historical contexts, providing an innovative approach to studying music history.
This assignment integrates AI tools into the collaborative writing process, includes a research component where students investigate the implications of AI in professional communication, and asks students to use their research findings to create a professional document using AI tools.
Students work collaboratively in groups to draft their constitutions, fostering teamwork and communication skills while allowing them to benefit from diverse perspectives and ideas.
Through six templated lesson plans, this resource covers information literacy and visual literacy. The assignment provides a structured framework for understanding and applying ethical principles in AI usage.
The assignment shifts the focus from traditional bibliography compilation to a discovery-centered approach, encouraging students to explore and engage deeply with sources.
This curriculum introduces the technical details of how AI systems generate content using context, allowing students to engage actively with the material.
This activity provides an interactive and engaging approach where students can play with AI tools and explore GANs and discrimnators through activities like a password guessing game and painting with a generator.
Students engage in role-playing activities where they run their own companies and make ethical decisions. This hands-on approach helps them understand the practical implications of AI ethics.
The activity addresses biases in facial recognition, particularly how it fails more often on women and people with darker skin. It also discusses the ethical implications and legal responses to surveillance technology, fostering critical thinking and informed discussions among students.
This activity allows students to actively engage in the learning process by acting out different layers of a neural network and teaching others what they have learned.
This assignment helps students boost productivity by using ChatGPT to create personalized schedules that balance academic, personal, and work lives.
ChatGPT can assist in turning content into a question-and-answer format and creating interactive quizzes, enhancing the study experience. For students whose second language is English, ChatGPT can translate content into their native language, improving comprehension and retention.
Students use ChatGPT to receive explanations and definitions in various formats, with content progressing from simplified to more complex levels. Available formats include charts, graphs, images, audio recordings, videos, text summaries, games, and simulations.
Students can use ChatGPT to create customizable pretests that withhold answers until the quiz is completed, providing feedback for missed questions.
This assignment shows students how to use ChatGPT to generate a variety of quiz questions on any topic, even when no existing materials are available. Students can customize the difficulty and style of the questions, making self-quizzing more effective and tailored to their needs.
By generating outlines, summaries, and study aids tailored to their learning preferences, students can better manage their study time and improve their comprehension and retention of material.
Students transform theoretical concepts into practical solutions by using AI tools to generate software code. ChatGPT can provider guidance, explanations, and code generation support. This interactive learning approach encourages problem-solving and helps students create and test their software projects effectively.
This assignment teaches students to generate social media posts tailored to specific audiences. By understanding the tone and style of various platforms, students can create content that effectively communicates key concepts to targeted demographics.
This assignment leverages poetry to teach key concepts from various subjects, particularly STEM, by incorporating poetic devices like metaphors.
By using ChatGPT to generate key branding elements, students can enhance their marketing skills and learn the importance of effective communication in branding.