Study: Career Paths 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: Assist students in setting and reaching career goals with ChatGPT tools that streamline the process. Key Features of This Assignment Self-Assessment and Career Matching This assignment helps …
Generate: Slogans 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 further their entrepreneurship goals by using ChatGPT to brainstorm ideas for slogans, mottos, and other catchphrases that build brands. Key Features of This Assignment …
Generate: Business Ideas 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: Empower students to brainstorm new business ideas for products or services related to their areas of interest. Key Features of This Assignment Empowerment through Creativity This assignment …
Generate: Role Play 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: Ask students to create personas and then engage in interview-based conversations that simulate real-world scenarios. Key Features of This Assignment Interactive Learning Students create personas and engage …
Writing: Create Counterarguments 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: Introduce counterarguments by engaging in a debate with ChatGPT. Key Features of This Assignment Engagement with Counterarguments Students use ChatGPT to simulate debates, helping them understand and …
Writing: Request Definitions, Synonyms, and Antonyms 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: Instruct students to use ChatGPT as a thesaurus. Key Features of This Assignment Enhanced Vocabulary Students use ChatGPT to find definitions, synonyms, and antonyms, helping them expand …
Writing: Overcoming Writer’s Block 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: Tell students to draft an opening paragraph with ChatGPT to avoid the paralysis that accompanies a blank page. Key Features of This Assignment Initial Draft Creation ChatGPT …
Analyze: Summarize Longer Texts 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 create summaries of longer texts. Key Features of This Assignment Efficiency in Analysis Students learn to leverage ChatGPT for summarizing longer …
AI for Editing This assignment, by Nupoor Ranade, is from TextGenEd: Teaching with Text Generation Technologies in the WAC Clearinghouse Repository. The Abstract from the site explains: This assignment asks students to generate a complex essay using an AI text generation tool, edit the essay using principles taught in class to improve the readability score of the generated content. Students …
Professional Writing for Healthcare This assignment, by Heidi McKee, is from TextGenEd: Teaching with Text Generation Technologies in the WAC Clearinghouse Repository. The Abstract from the site explains: In this project, via a series of scaffolded assignments, students selected and read medical journal articles and then drafted and revised research summaries for lay audiences, exploring, analyzing, and integrating the use of …
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. …
Text Generators in Technical Communication: Summarizing Technical Documents This assignment, by Douglas Eyman, is from TextGenEd: Teaching with Text Generation Technologies in the WAC Clearinghouse Repository. The Abstract from the site explains: This assignment asks students to research a wide range of text analysis and summarization tools and carry out an assessment task to gauge how well these tools can summarize technical documents. The students …
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 …
The Paranoid Memorandum: A Generative AI Exercise for Professional Communication This classroom activity, by Jason Crider, is from TextGenEd: Teaching with Text Generation Technologies in the WAC Clearinghouse Repository. The Abstract from the site explains: This classroom activity engages students in an undergraduate technical and professional writing course in the critical evaluation of workplace communication alongside the specter of AI writing platforms. In small groups, students draft …