Assignments

Study: Time Management

This assignment helps students boost productivity by using ChatGPT to create personalized schedules that balance academic, personal, and work lives.

Study: Flashcard Generation

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.

Study: Personal Teaching Assistant

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.

Study: Question Creation

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.

Study: Create Study Plans

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.

Generate: Software Coding

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.

Generate: Social Media Posts

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.

Generate: Poetry as Application

This assignment leverages poetry to teach key concepts from various subjects, particularly STEM, by incorporating poetic devices like metaphors.

Generate: Slogans

By using ChatGPT to generate key branding elements, students can enhance their marketing skills and learn the importance of effective communication in branding.

Generate: Role Play

Students create personas and engage in role-playing interviews with ChatGPT, simulating real-world scenarios and making the learning experience more interactive and engaging.

Writing: First Draft

Students use ChatGPT to create an outline and then build their first draft, ensuring they have a clear structure with an introduction, body, and conclusion.

Writing: Create Counterarguments

Students use ChatGPT to simulate debates, helping them understand and develop counterarguments, which enhances their critical thinking and argumentation skills.

Writing: Generate an Outline

ChatGPT helps students organize their ideas into a coherent outline, providing a solid framework for their writing and ensuring all key points are logically ordered.

Revising LLM Text to (Re)Discover Rhetoric

This assignment encourages students to revise AI-generated text to make it more rhetorical, focusing on purpose, audience, and persuasion, thus enhancing their understanding and application of rhetorical principles.

AI & Deepfakes

This activity provides a thorough introduction to deepfakes, including definitions, how they work, and their impact on society, making it accessible even for those with no background knowledge. Students then engage in hands-on activities such as detecting deepfakes and creating their own, supplemented by videos and discussions to reinforce learning.

Evaluate: Bias

Students develop critical evaluation skills by assessing AI outputs for biases, assumptions, and stereotypes.

Evaluate: Write a Rebuttal

Students craft a detailed rebuttal to the AI-generated argument, focusing on different aspects such as the scope, conclusions, and missing evidence.

Prompt Engineering: Length

The assignment teaches students to specify the desired length of ChatGPT responses, enabling them to receive information in various formats, from concise summaries to detailed essays, depending on their needs.

Writing Against the Machine: Debating with ChatGPT

Students use ChatGPT to generate counterclaims or alternative arguments to their initial thesis. This process helps them refine, extend, and evolve their argumentative skills by considering multiple perspectives.

Synthetic Metacognition: Iterating Prompts with GPTs

Students engage in prompt engineering by iteratively refining and tweaking the set of instructions given to a Large Language Model (LLM). Through a collaborative workshop format, students work in groups to analyze the AI’s output, discuss its strengths and weaknesses, and propose improvements.

AI in First Year Writing Courses

The assignment introduces an “AI Standards of Conduct” framework that differentiates between AI-assisted and AI-generated writing. The assignment encourages students to reflect on the ethical implications of using AI in writing.