Teaching Writing Across the Curriculum with AI
Writing Across the Curriculum Assignments, Classroom Activities, and Educational Resources for Higher Education
The activities in this article emphasizes the importance of critical media literacy, encouraging students to critically analyze and evaluate the use of generative AI in various media contexts.
This collection of activities were part of a series of workshops on AI literacy, touching on tools, prompt writing, and more. The activities can be used individually or as a full series.
Students critically analyze the role and impact of AI in the art world, examining ethical, social, and artistic implications to develop a nuanced perspective on AI-generated content.
This assignment asks students to examine and evaluate documents using generative AI by thinking on successively higher levels to assess the documents.
This assignment uses AI tools to assist students in crafting found poetry, providing an innovative approach to exploring language and poetic forms through technology.
This assignment uses generative AI to help students explore and analyze different music styles and historical contexts, providing an innovative approach to studying music history.
Students work collaboratively in groups to draft their constitutions, fostering teamwork and communication skills while allowing them to benefit from diverse perspectives and ideas.
The assignment provides a thorough introduction to AI concepts, covering the history, development, and current applications of AI technology.
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.
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
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.
Students explore and debate the ethical considerations and practical implications of using AI and detection tools in real-world contexts.
The assignment provides an extensive overview of copyright laws relevant to AI-generated content, including discussion of Creative Commons licensing.
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.
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.
Students can use ChatGPT to create customizable pretests that withhold answers until the quiz is completed, providing feedback for missed questions.
This assignment leverages poetry to teach key concepts from various subjects, particularly STEM, by incorporating poetic devices like metaphors.
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.
Students use ChatGPT to analyze their claims and evidence for hidden assumptions, ensuring that their arguments are logical and universally understandable.
Students use ChatGPT to simulate debates, helping them understand and develop counterarguments, which enhances their critical thinking and argumentation skills.
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.
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.
Students utilize ChatGPT to identify repetitions, themes, and categories in texts, leveraging its ability to recognize synonyms and related concepts, even with varied diction.
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.