The Ethical Dilemma of AI and the Absent Team Member
This activity explores an ethical scenario involving team documentation when a member is absent. Students must evaluate various options and their implications for accuracy, deadlines, and safety.
Academic Integrity
A Decision Tree to Guide Student AI Use
This activity provides a decision tree model to guide students in responsible AI use for enhancing their learning. It emphasizes critical engagement, iterative use, and transparency in AI interactions, fostering metacognitive reflection and ethical clarity in writing.
Help Students Think More Deeply With ChatGPT
This assignment guides students in using ChatGPT to enhance their critical thinking skills. It encourages them to engage deeply with content, ask insightful questions, and analyze AI-generated responses for accuracy and relevance.
Interview a Chatbot
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.
Student Guide for AI Use
This resource “helps students understand how and when to use these [AI] tools wisely and responsibly.” by using a flowchart of possible uses and their academic appropriateness.
Uncovering Deepfakes
Students will analyze various examples of deepfakes, discuss their implications, and learn to apply strategies to discern authentic from manipulated content.
Create and Fact-Check a Bibliography
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.
Critiquing Generative AI in Technology and Culture
Students experiment with generative AI and critically evaluate its limitations and implications on academic work. Through this process, students learn to distinguish between reliable and fabricated sources.
A Stoplight Model for Guiding Student AI Usage
This assignment establishes explicit guidelines for when and how students can use AI, categorized into red, yellow, and green lights.
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.
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.
AI Literacy: Real-World Cautionary Tales
Students analyze real-world case studies that illustrate the potential pitfalls and ethical considerations of AI applications, enhancing their understanding of AI’s impact on society.
Fact-Checking Auto-Generated AI Hype
Students critically evaluate the claims made by AI-generated text, distinguishing between accurate information and exaggerated hype.
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.
Navigating the New Frontier of Generative AI in Peer Review and Academic Writing
This assignment explores the use of generative AI tools in the peer review process, allowing students to leverage AI for providing constructive feedback and enhancing the quality of academic writing.
AI Literacy Workshop Series
This collection of activities were part of a series of workshops on AI literacy, touching on tools, prompt writing, and more. The activities can be used individually or as a full series.
Working Alongside, Not Against, AI Writing Tools in the Composition Classroom: A Dialectical Retrospective
This assignment emphasizes the use of AI writing tools to enhance students’ writing processes, encouraging them to explore and leverage these technologies effectively in their compositions.
AI Literacy Workshop: AI and Copyright
The assignment provides an extensive overview of copyright laws relevant to AI-generated content, including discussion of Creative Commons licensing.
Cake-Making Analogy for Setting Generative AI Guidelines/Ethics
The assignment uses the cake-making analogy to explain the importance of setting guidelines and ethics for generative AI.
AI & Ethics
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.
AI & Drawing
This assignment teaches students how data becomes output in AI models and highlighting the presence of human biases in datasets. By exploring drawing in Google Quick, Draw!, students learn core AI ideas in a fun and interactive way.
Writing: Generate a Thesis
ChatGPT provides students with potential thesis ideas, helping them brainstorm and refine their own arguments while learning to avoid direct copy-pasting to maintain academic integrity.
Writing: Overcoming Writer’s Block
ChatGPT helps students overcome writer’s block by generating an initial draft of an opening paragraph, allowing students to focus on revising and refining rather than starting from scratch.