How GANs (Generative Adversarial Networks) Work This assignment, by AI4ALL, is from the GANs Google Drive, which also includes all the related materials for the activity. The assignment includes standards for K12 students, but it can easily be used in the college classroom as well. The Summary from the site explains: This is a technical curriculum about how some AI systems that generate …
AI & Drawing This assignment, by AI4ALL, is from the AI & Drawing Google Drive, which also includes all the related materials for the activity. The assignment includes standards for K12 students, but it can easily be used in the college classroom as well. The Summary from the site explains: This is a quick, one-hour introduction to AI. It is …
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: 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 …
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 …
AI & Deepfakes This assignment, by AI4ALL, is from the AI and Deepfakes Google Drive, which also includes all the related materials for the activity. The assignment includes standards for K12 students, but it can easily be used in the college classroom as well. The Summary from the site explains: AI can create realistic-looking images and videos that were never …
Analyze: Poetry and Figurative 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: Allow students to use ChatGPT to begin the process of interpreting a poem’s meaning while building their understanding of figurative language and its uses. Key Features of …
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 …
NAEA Position Statement on Use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and AI-generated Imagery in Visual Arts Education This policy, from the National Art Education Association, emphasizes the need for ethical and responsible integration of AI tools. It highlights the importance of balancing AI-generated imagery with traditional art forms to foster creativity and innovation while respecting intellectual property rights. The policy also addresses the potential challenges of AI, such as biases and the impact on …
Build a Brain: Coin Snap This assignment, by Peter McOwan and Paul Curzon, is from the Computer science activities with a sense of fun from Queen Mary University of London. The Summary from the site explains: Each neuron [in the human brain] follows simple rules, a simple algorithm, that tell it when to fire. [In this activity, students] can make [their] own …
The Intelligent Piece of Paper This assignment, by Peter McOwan and Paul Curzon, is from the Computer science activities with a sense of fun from Queen Mary University of London. The Summary from the site explains: Hold a competition between a human and an artificial intelligence: a “highly intelligent piece of paper.” In this ongoing challenge between the best of humanity and …
Genre Generators This assignment, by Addison Eldin, is from the TextGenEd collection in the WAC Clearinghouse Repository. The Abstract from the site explains: This activity asks students to analyze and create *genre generators*, which are text generators that use the computer to create new instances of a formal written genre. After the instructor introduces the concept through a collaborative …
Decoding an AI Bot’s Chatting Pattern: Text Generating Technology Analysis Assignment This assignment, by Bhushan Aryal & Ordner W. Taylor, is from the TextGenEd collection in the WAC Clearinghouse Repository. The Abstract from the site explains: This 4-week assignment asks advanced undergraduate students to hold a sustained ‘conversation’ on a topic with an AI chatbot to decode the pattern, limitations and possibilities of the AI-based writing technology. Students …
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, …
Professor Bot: An Exercise in Algorithmic Accountability This assignment, by Jentery Sayers, is from the TextGenEd collection in the WAC Clearinghouse Repository. The Abstract from the site explains: This low-tech, tool-agnostic, small-stakes assignment prompts students to attend to issues of power and governance in artificial intelligence (AI), with an emphasis on what students do not know and may thus want to learn about algorithmic …
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 …
Deconstructing and Reconstructing Genre and Form with Tracery This assignment, by Mark Sample, is from the TextGenEd collection in the WAC Clearinghouse Repository. The Abstract from the site explains: In this assignment, students work with HTML, CSS, Javascript, and JSON templates in order to design a website that generates new content out of pre-established rules and word banks. No prior coding or web development experience …
Testing ChatGPT Response Variety to Introduce Natural Language Processing This assignment, by Elisa Beshero-Bondar, is from the TextGenEd collection in the WAC Clearinghouse Repository. The Abstract from the site explains: This sequence of assignments progressively introduces students to natural language processing (NLP) through repeated prompt experiments with ChatGPT. Students are beginners learning Python and NLP. Accessing ChatGPT and writing prompt experiments successfully provided the basis for …