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.
Assignments
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.
Analyze: Poetry and Figurative Language
Students use ChatGPT to engage actively with poetry, facilitating a deeper understanding of figurative language and interpretation.
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.
Decoding an AI Bot’s Chatting Pattern: Text Generating Technology Analysis Assignment
Students engage in sustained conversations with AI chatbots like ChatGPT, analyzing the bots’ writing and thinking patterns. The assignment prompts students to consider the ethical implications of using AI chatbots, including issues related to plagiarism, authorship, and the potential displacement of human labor.
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.
Professor Bot: An Exercise in Algorithmic Accountability
Students explore and reflect on algorithmic accountability through a speculative scenario where an AI called Professor Bot grades entrance essays.
The Term Paper Turing Test
Students use accessible language models to generate parts of their term papers. This hands-on experiment helps students explore the capabilities and limitations of AI in writing, as well as the ethical dimensions of using such tools.
Promoting Ethical Artificial Intelligence Literacy
By comparing AI-generated outputs with their own work and reflecting on these comparisons, students develop enhanced metacognitive skills, which are crucial for their personal and professional growth.
Who’s Talking: Dada, Machine Writing, and the Found: RiTa.js for Visual Artists and Writers
Students generate text using both analog cut-up techniques and a simple Markov procedure. This exercise introduces them to found art, encouraging them to critically examine issues of property and power in the context of generative text and its sources.
Different Ways of Narrating with Curveship-js
This assignment helps students grasp core aspects of narrative theory by requiring them to generate multiple variations of an underlying story. Students use Curveship-js, a JavaScript framework, to implement their narrative variations.
cmpttnl cnstrnt: An Exercise in Constraint and Prompt Engineering
Students engage in hands-on activities where they create prompts, analyze the outputs generated by LLMs, and reflect on the outcomes.
Spellcraft & Translation: Conjuring with AI
Students create “spells,” or poems based on a wish, and then use a large language model (LLM) to generate a corresponding AI-created spell.
Cyborg Texts: A Procedural Creativity Assignment
This assignment engages students in the practice of procedural creativity by encouraging them to play with, hack, or build text generators.
Critical Assessment and Analysis Exercise
Students compare AI-generated responses to human-written responses, examining differences in style, clarity, and effectiveness.
Learning about Text Technology through the LLM Generation of Papers
Students generate a paper focused on a highly specific and recent text technology and reflect on how LLMs influence the writing process and their own writing practices.