Poetry

Generate: Creative Writing as Application

This assignment leverages the power of storytelling to activate sensory, emotional, and cognitive regions of the brain, making content more relevant, memorable, and transferable. By asking students to create characters, build backstory and conflict, and engage in scenes that require understanding of concepts or theories, this assignment enhances learning across various subjects, including biomedical sciences and health professions.

Generate: Poetry as Application

This assignment leverages poetry to teach key concepts from various subjects, particularly STEM, by incorporating poetic devices like metaphors.

Repetition

This assignment serves as a beginner-level programming exercise that introduces students to the concept of iteration using for loops. By writing code that repeats a word or phrase 50,000 times, students gain a fundamental understanding of how loops work in programming.

Deconstructing and Reconstructing Genre and Form with Tracery

Students use the JavaScript library Tracery to create procedural texts that generate new content based on predefined rules and word banks. This approach explores the power of randomness and variability in text generation, akin to advanced Mad Libs.

The Grand Exhibition of Prompts

Utilizing a threaded discussion platform, students experiment with AI image-making programs, focusing on the verbal prompts they create. Students are evaluated not only on the quality of their prompts but also on their support and encouragement of other writers.