Ethics: Teaching Writing Across the Curriculum with AI

Embodying Rhetoric: Quick Scripts and ‘Acts’ of Persuasion

Students write persuasive scripts using AI and consider rhetorical awareness, audience adaptation, and argumentation skills through interactive and performative writing exercises.

Finding Forgotten Chinese Women: Critically Engaging with ChatGPT-Generated History

Students critically evaluate AI-generated historical narratives, recognizing biases and omissions. This resource fosters ethical awareness, research skills, and responsible engagement with AI-assisted writing.

Critical AI Analysis Presentation

Students examine AI-generated content for ethical concerns, bias, and credibility. This resource encourages critical thinking, ethical awareness, and responsible engagement with AI-assisted writing.

Critical Media Analysis Project (CMAP)

The Critical Media Analysis Project (CMAP) explores how students can critically engage with AI-generated media and text to assess bias, credibility, and ethical implications. The article provides strategies for integrating AI into media analysis, helping students develop critical thinking skills and a deeper understanding of ethical issues in digital writing.

Ghostwriting: Your Voice in the Machine

Students explore how AI-generated text can reflect and adapt to an individual’s writing style. The activity examines the implications of AI-assisted authorship, guiding students in refining their digital writing practices, critically assessing AI-generated content, and maintaining their unique voice while engaging with machine-generated text.

Ethical Discussions

These activity prompts, all written by Traci Gardner, help students explore ethical considerations related to AI in writing.

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.

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.

AI Algorithms: How Well Do They Know You?

This lesson plan teaches students about AI recommendation algorithms and their influence on online content. Through videos, discussions, and reflective exercises, students learn how algorithms shape their online experiences and develop critical thinking 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.

Understanding AI Bias

This lesson plan helps students understand AI bias through practical exercises and discussions. By exploring training and testing data, students learn how biases can be introduced into AI systems and develop critical thinking and writing skills by analyzing and reflecting on these concepts.

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.

Picturing the Future of Medicine

Students envision the future of medicine through AI innovation by creating a virtual vision board. They will explore how AI has augmented the field of medicine and predict future developments.

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.

Facial Recognition for Good, Evil, & Everything in Between

This activity explores the dual-use nature of AI facial recognition technology through research and creative categorization. Students will develop critical writing skills by analyzing and presenting the ethical implications and societal impact of facial recognition.

Create an AI Expert Guessing Game

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.

Laws for AI

Students research ethical business practices, learn about Asimov’s Laws of Robotics, examine the societal impact of AI, and develop their own laws for AI.

Using AI to Solve Environmental Problems

Students explore AI applications for addressing environmental challenges. They learn about AI’s role in sustainability and propose AI-powered solutions to local environmental issues, enhancing their research, critical thinking, and presentation skills.