Literature

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 …

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 …

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 …