AI Literacy Workshop: Prompt Engineering
This assignment provides a comprehensive introduction to prompt engineering, explaining its significance in guiding AI outputs and teaching students how to craft effective prompts for AI tools.
Critical Thinking
Think Outside the Box
Students compare and contrast information obtained from free generative AI tools and subscription databases, critically assessing the completeness and trustworthiness of the information provided by generative AI tools
Vetting ChatGPT sources
The assignment provides a detailed framework for evaluating the credibility and reliability of sources generated by ChatGPT, helping students develop critical thinking skills and discernment in using AI-generated content.
AI Literacy Workshop: Evaluation and Detection Tools
Students explore and debate the ethical considerations and practical implications of using AI and detection tools in real-world contexts.
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.
AI & The Environment
This assignment highlights how AI can process large datasets much faster than humans, aiding environmentalists in protecting wildlife. By analyzing camera trap and satellite data, AI helps researchers make informed decisions and conservation plans.
AI & Facial Recognition
The activity addresses biases in facial recognition, particularly how it fails more often on women and people with darker skin. It also discusses the ethical implications and legal responses to surveillance technology, fostering critical thinking and informed discussions among students.
Study: Multiple-Choice Question Generation
Students can use ChatGPT to create customizable pretests that withhold answers until the quiz is completed, providing feedback for missed questions.
Generate: Poetry as Application
This assignment leverages poetry to teach key concepts from various subjects, particularly STEM, by incorporating poetic devices like metaphors.
Generate: Elaboration
ChatGPT helps students elaborate on their work by providing step-by-step processes, pros and cons, and compare-and-contrast scenarios, enhancing their understanding and depth of analysis.
Writing: Improve Connections between Claims and Evidence
Students use ChatGPT to analyze their claims and evidence for hidden assumptions, ensuring that their arguments are logical and universally understandable.
Writing: Create Counterarguments
Students use ChatGPT to simulate debates, helping them understand and develop counterarguments, which enhances their critical thinking and argumentation skills.
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.
Analyze: Quantitative Analysis
ChatGPT helps students break down complex topics into smaller, manageable sub-components, aiding in the generation of a clear thesis and logical argument flow across paragraphs. Students in professional writing courses can use these skills as they write memos and reports.
Analyze: Qualitative Analysis
Students utilize ChatGPT to identify repetitions, themes, and categories in texts, leveraging its ability to recognize synonyms and related concepts, even with varied diction.
Revising LLM Text to (Re)Discover Rhetoric
This assignment encourages students to revise AI-generated text to make it more rhetorical, focusing on purpose, audience, and persuasion, thus enhancing their understanding and application of rhetorical principles.
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.
Analyze: Critique and Interpret
The assignment helps students develop their interpretation skills by engaging with ChatGPT to analyze the structure, themes, and arguments of a text, allowing them to gain a deeper understanding of various texts.
Analyze: Find the Needle in the Haystack
Students develop their ability to craft precise queries for AI tools, learning how to effectively ask for specific pieces of information and improve their research efficiency in handling extensive texts.
Evaluate: Write a Rebuttal
Students craft a detailed rebuttal to the AI-generated argument, focusing on different aspects such as the scope, conclusions, and missing evidence.
Evaluate: Logical Fallacies
Students create arguments using ChatGPT and identify any logical fallacies present in the generated content. Students provide a detailed explanation of how the identified logical fallacies occurred and suggest ways to prevent them.
Using AI Text as Prompts for Critical Analysis
Students are provided with AI-generated texts relevant to the course topics and are asked to comment, review, and expand on these texts using text-editing software.
Synthetic Metacognition: Iterating Prompts with GPTs
Students engage in prompt engineering by iteratively refining and tweaking the set of instructions given to a Large Language Model (LLM). Through a collaborative workshop format, students work in groups to analyze the AI’s output, discuss its strengths and weaknesses, and propose improvements.
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.