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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Transforming Writing Assignments with AI: Approaches for Using Artificial Intelligence for Fostering Student Engagement and Comprehension
Students use AI tools to better comprehend and analyze complex texts, asking AI questions about the texts to deepen their understanding and engagement. Students use AI as a collaborative tool to enhance their own writing process while ensuring their original contribution remains substantial.
Analysis of Iterations of Responses to Human Prompts: ChatGPT and Automated Writing
Students generate prompts, collect consecutive responses from ChatGPT, and analyze these iteration. By summarizing, synthesizing, and editing AI responses, and conducting library research, students examine the ethical implications of AI in writing.
The Paranoid Memorandum: A Generative AI Exercise for Professional Communication
By simulating real-world scenarios and varying the degree of AI usage, students experience firsthand the challenges and nuances of integrating AI into workplace communication.