Comparison & Contrast: Teaching Writing Across the Curriculum with AI

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.

How Is AI Trained?

This lesson plan teaches students how AI is trained using data they share online. Through illustrations, discussions, and real-life examples, students learn the importance of data in AI development and enhance their critical thinking and writing skills.

Facing Off with Facial Recognition

Through discussions, definitions, and reflective activities, students develop a critical understanding of facial recognition and its impact on privacy, enhancing their analytical and writing skills.

How AI Bias Impacts Our Lives

This lesson plan helps students understand the impacts of AI bias on society. Through critical thinking exercises and discussions, students learn about AI bias, its negative effects, and how to address and report these issues.

AI Chatbots: Who’s Behind the Screen?

This lesson plan introduces students to AI chatbots, their functionalities, and their real-life applications. Through videos, discussions, and interactive activities, students enhance their understanding of AI chatbots and develop critical writing skills by articulating their knowledge and reflections.

AI Challenge: The Instagram Experiment

Students investigate how Instagram’s AI ranks posts in their feeds.

AI Challenge: Fooling Facial Recognition

Students explore methods to fool their phone’s facial recognition technology and reflect on the effectiveness of these methods.

AI Challenge: Smarter than ChatGPT

Students test ChatGPT’s capabilities by asking it a range of questions, verifying its responses, and sharing their findings.

Interview with ChatGPT

Students explore the abilities and limitations of AI chatbots like ChatGPT through creating and recording a podcast interview. Students will analyze the role of AI in information-providing contexts and compare it with human expertise.

Highway to Autonomy

This activity involves students exploring the technology, benefits, and ethical concerns of autonomous vehicles (AVs). Through research and analysis, students will create a policy proposal addressing a specific AV concern and advocate for their proposal.

AI-Powered vs. Human Translators

This project helps students compare AI-powered translators with human translation accuracy and apply these tools in real-time conversations. They will develop an understanding of AI in language processing and evaluate its effectiveness in facilitating communication.