Teaching Writing Across the Curriculum with AI
Writing Across the Curriculum Assignments, Classroom Activities, and Educational Resources for Higher Education
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.
This activity guides students through brainstorming and developing college essay ideas, helping them enhance their writing skills, critical thinking, and creativity.
Students break their writing goals down into manageable objectives using AI tools. The activity encourages detailed planning and organization, enabling students to tackle complex writing tasks with a clear, step-by-step approach.
This activity helps students create specific, measurable, achievable, relevant, and time-bound (SMART) goals for their writing projects, enhancing their planning and execution of writing tasks.
Students write a text with AI assistance, followed by revising it without AI, and finally reflecting on the process.
Students will identify inaccuracies in ChatGPT’s responses and provide corrections, enhancing their understanding of disciplinary concepts.
Students prompt AI to write a 750-word op-ed, conduct a thorough fact-check and critique, and then rewrite the op-ed with accurate sources and improved arguments.
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 use ChatGPT to produce an essay addressing their problem statement and research question, focusing on exploring the tool’s capabilities in generating initial ideas.
This assignment focuses on developing students’ skills in writing compelling museum labels by using AI-generated content as a starting point. Students analyze ceramic objects, generate prompts for ChatGPT, critique the AI-generated labels, and reflect on the writing process.
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.
Students submit their writing to an AI tool to receive feedback on various aspects, such as clarity, coherence, and grammar.
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.
Students examine the music and social media presence of singers that they know well and compare their findings to the responses the ChatGPT provides about the singers.
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.
This assignment allows students to engage with AI-generated characters, providing a dynamic method for exploring and understanding character motivations and behaviors.
Students ask probing questions of AI outputs to test their validity and reliability.
This assignment emphasizes the importance of a rich descriptive vocabulary in art. Additionally, students learn to recognize and report biases in AI-generated art.
Students critically evaluate the outputs of AI tools, such as ChatGPT, by comparing them to human-generated responses.