Teaching Writing Across the Curriculum with AI
Writing Across the Curriculum Assignments, Classroom Activities, and Educational Resources for Higher Education
This activity engages students in understanding and addressing the impact of AI-generated deepfakes through creating a press release. The focus is on developing fact-based, balanced written communication aimed at educating the general public about deepfakes.
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.
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.
This project guides students in designing an AI agent to effectively interact with humans in various disciplines. They will explore the current use of AI in specific fields and develop their own AI agents to address real-world tasks or challenges.
This project helps students understand how subject-matter experts classify information and how AI can perform similar classifications to solve real-world problems. By creating a guessing game, students synthesize knowledge from their coursework, making it a great tool for review and end-of-unit synthesis.
This activity involves students using AI tools like ChatGPT to explain concepts, receiving instant feedback, and refining their understanding.
The activity asks students to generate visual summaries of specific topics using AI tools.
The activity involves using AI to generate concrete examples to explain abstract concepts, making them more relatable for students.
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.
The strategy helps teachers identify Bloom’s Taxonomy goals for a project. They can then use the goals to give students feedback on their projects, helping them develop higher-order thinking and writing skills.
This assessment strategy uses quizzes to give students feedback on their understanding and retention of key concepts. It focuses on reinforcing learning through immediate feedback, identifying areas for improvement, and promoting mastery of relevant skills.
Students can use AI chatbots and details from this activity to convert text into emoji sequences and vice versa, enhancing their skills in interpreting and conveying meaning through alternative communication methods.
The activity helps teachers use AI to create a time travel narrative for students.
This activity involves using AI tools to summarize text, helping students develop skills in condensing information while retaining key points.
Through this activity, students engage with AI chatbots to deepen their understanding of complex concepts or issues. The same strategy can also be used to help students to understand readings.
Students evaluate and improve a ChatGPT-generated response, identifying superficial elements, addressing missing points, and elaborating using class material. By varying the question given to the AI text generator, you can customize this assignment to any course.
Students identify the AI-generated piece from a set of three texts, developing their ability to discern subtle differences in writing styles and content.
Students engage with AI to learn new concepts tailored to their individual needs. They use the experience to receive and integrate feedback from the AI on their reflections and learning progress.
The activity involves using AI as a personal tutor to enhance students’ learning experiences. It includes generating AI responses, evaluating their effectiveness, and reflecting on the learning process.
This assignment asks students to critically evaluate a response from AI by generating a question, examining the response, and writing a short analytical essay.
This assignment allows students to engage with AI-generated characters, providing a dynamic method for exploring and understanding character motivations and behaviors.
The assignment encourages students to critically evaluate AI tools, considering their benefits and limitations, and developing a nuanced understanding of their impact on the reading process.
This assignment asks students to examine and evaluate documents using generative AI by thinking on successively higher levels to assess the documents.
Students work collaboratively in groups to draft their constitutions, fostering teamwork and communication skills while allowing them to benefit from diverse perspectives and ideas.