Teaching Writing Across the Curriculum with AI
Writing Across the Curriculum Assignments, Classroom Activities, and Educational Resources for Higher Education
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.
Students experiment with TikTok’s algorithm to see how effectively they can influence their For You Page (FYP) content.
Students explore methods to fool their phone’s facial recognition technology and reflect on the effectiveness of these methods.
Students test ChatGPT’s capabilities by asking it a range of questions, verifying its responses, and sharing their findings.
Students explore how AI systems influence government decision-making and their impact on daily life. By creating infographics, students will explain AI’s role in practical decisions and draw conclusions about AI-based decision-making effects.
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.
Students explore the abilities and limitations of AI chatbots like ChatGPT through creating and recording a podcast interview. Students will analyze the role of AI in information-providing contexts and compare it with human expertise.
This activity involves students exploring AI’s potential in decoding animal communication and designing a mobile app prototype for interspecies communication.
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.
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.
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.
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.
This project introduces students to how AI chatbots work, focusing on natural language processing. Students learn to develop chatbot models for subject-specific tasks, enhancing their understanding of AI’s role in communication and task automation.
This activity explores AI’s impact on the environment, asking students to write analytical essays on the environmental costs and benefits of AI technologies.
Students participate in a simulated Model UN or Model Congress, where they draft and debate resolutions. The activity emphasizes persuasive writing, research skills, and the ability to articulate and defend positions clearly and effectively.
In this activity, students explore various research project ideas using AI to brainstorm more specific topics.
In this activity, students generate a reading list on a given topic using an AI text generator and then verify the accuracy of the sources.
Students experiment with generative AI and critically evaluate its limitations and implications on academic work. Through this process, students learn to distinguish between reliable and fabricated sources.
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 use ChatGPT to produce an essay addressing their problem statement and research question, focusing on exploring the tool’s capabilities in generating initial ideas.
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.
Students ask probing questions of AI outputs to test their validity and reliability.
Students conduct preliminary research to assess the interest, relevance, and manageability of a chosen topic before committing to a long-term project, by setting criteria, searching for mainstream and scholarly views, and reflecting on how to refine the topic.
Students conduct a rhetorical analysis of the outputs generated by ChatGPT, critically evaluating the AI’s responses and the effectiveness of their own writing in eliciting meaningful and accurate information.