Writing: Improve Transitions This assignment, by Kevin Yee, Kirby Whittington, Erin Doggette, and Laurie Uttich, is from the book ChatGPT Assignments to Use in Your Classroom Today. The Summary from the site explains: Create a game using ChatGPT that teaches students how to mark logical relationships between ideas. Key Features of This Assignment Engaging Learning Experience ChatGPT helps create interactive …
Analyze: Convert to Conversational Language This assignment, by Kevin Yee, Kirby Whittington, Erin Doggette, and Laurie Uttich, is from the book ChatGPT Assignments to Use in Your Classroom Today. The Summary from the site explains: Encourage students to use ChatGPT to simplify language when reading complex texts or learning difficult concepts. Key Features of This Assignment Enhanced Comprehension Students use ChatGPT to …
Revising LLM Text to (Re)Discover Rhetoric This assignment, by Clancy Ratliff, is from the book Teaching and Generative AI. The Abstract from the article explains: In this essay, I share an assignment that asks students to engage in rhetorical revision of LLM text using a changelog table as a tool to document the revision. To demonstrate to the students what I was asking …
Artificial Intelligence and Mathematics Teaching This policy, from the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics, highlights the role of AI in enhancing personalized learning, emphasizing the need for teachers to integrate AI ethically while maintaining their pedagogical and relational expertise. It stresses the importance of skepticism towards AI results, especially due to potential biases, and advocates for the active involvement of educators …
MLA-CCCC Joint Task Force on Writing and AI Working Paper This policy, from The MLA-CCCC Joint Task Force on Writing and AI, provides a comprehensive overview of the implications of AI in writing and literature education. It emphasizes the importance of balancing the potential benefits of AI tools with the need to maintain academic integrity and ethical considerations. The policy advocates for integrating AI to enhance, not …
Writing Against the Machine: Debating with ChatGPT This assignment, by Justin Lewis & Ted Wayland, is from the TextGenEd collection in the WAC Clearinghouse Repository. The Abstract from the site explains: This assignment challenges students to use LLMs to map the counterarguments to their main claims through a process of counterclaiming. By writing prompts that position the AI as argumentative adversary, students can refine, …
Using LLMs as Peer Reviewers for Revising Essays This assignment, by Antonio Byrd, is from the TextGenEd collection in the WAC Clearinghouse Repository. The Abstract from the site explains: In this assignment, undergraduates use large language models (LLMs) to assist in revising their essay drafts by asking LLMs to respond to common peer review prompts. Students learn prompt engineering and develop rhetorical judgments on the …
Synthetic Metacognition: Iterating Prompts with GPTs This assignment, by Kyle Booten, is from the TextGenEd collection in the WAC Clearinghouse Repository. The Abstract from the site explains: This assignment suggests that “prompt engineering”—iteratively tinkering with and refining the set of instructions that guides the output of an LLM—is a worthwhile writing activity that can encourage students to be metacognitive about the “moves” that …
Repetition This assignment, by Zach Whalen, is from the TextGenEd collection in the WAC Clearinghouse Repository. The Abstract from the site explains: Computational text generation is having a moment right now, with large-language models at the forefront of what many people may have in mind when thinking about computer-generated text. A major shortcoming of these approaches—including ChatGPT, Bard, …
Teaching Social Identity and Cultural Bias Using AI Text Generation This assignment, by Christopher D. Jimenez, is from the TextGenEd collection in the WAC Clearinghouse Repository. The Abstract from the site explains: This interactive survey assignment prompts upper-level humanities students to reflect on their social and cultural identities in relation to the textual inputs & outputs of large language models, such as ChatGPT. Successful implementation of the …
The Term Paper Turing Test This assignment, by Paul Fyfe, is from the TextGenEd collection in the WAC Clearinghouse Repository. The Abstract from the site explains: This assignment asks students to use an accessible language model to write their term papers—with the goal of fooling the instructor. While initially framed as something sneaky or as a shortcut for writing, the assignment makes …
Spellcraft & Translation: Conjuring with AI This assignment, by Dana LeTriece Calhoun, is from the TextGenEd collection in the WAC Clearinghouse Repository. The Abstract from the site explains: This assignment invites undergraduate students to create “spells,” a poem based on a wish, and prompt an LLM to write a spell of its own, then reflect on their input and LLM output compared to …
Learning about Text Technology through the LLM Generation of Papers This assignment, by Nick Montfort, is from the TextGenEd collection in the WAC Clearinghouse Repository. The Abstract from the site explains: Students are assigned to generate a paper about a highly specific, recent text technology, using a free Large Language Model, and then to reflect on this. Our goals: (1) highlight new aspects of the writing process, …
Rhetorical Analysis of Predictive LLMs This assignment, by Alan Knowles, is from the TextGenEd collection in the WAC Clearinghouse Repository. The Abstract from the site explains: This assignment asks students to train a large language model (LLM) to generate Twitter posts in the style of specific accounts via a process known as few-shot learning, which trains the LLM on a small number …
Neuroqueering AI: The Text Generator as Emergent Collaborator This assignment, by Natalie Goodman, is from the TextGenEd collection in the WAC Clearinghouse Repository. The Abstract from the site explains: This assignment first tasks students with creating their own text generator using a premade module and then asks them to reflect on the experience of directing an LLM-generated composition. Students will choose a dataset to train …
Understanding Markov Chains This assignment, by Gabriel Egan, is from the TextGenEd collection in the WAC Clearinghouse Repository. The Abstract from the site explains: In this undergraduate assignment, students use a manually applied algorithm to generate a Markov Chain from a given short extract of language. Included here are precise instructions with diagrams for two activities where students develop structures …
Translating a Policy Document into Plain English This assignment, by Timothy Laquintano, is from TextGenEd: Teaching with Text Generation Technologies in the WAC Clearinghouse Repository. The Abstract from the site explains: This assignment asks undergraduate students to translate a complex policy document into plain English and then compare their output to the output of a large language model asked to do the same task. …
Analysis of Iterations of Responses to Human Prompts: ChatGPT and Automated Writing This assignment, by Huiling Ding, is from TextGenEd: Teaching with Text Generation Technologies in the WAC Clearinghouse Repository. The Abstract from the site explains: Generative AI and large language models such as GPT-3.5 introduce new tools and challenges to writing classrooms. This assignment aims to both introduce students to these new tools and to help them cultivate …