Prompt Engineering: Context and Specific Requests This assignment, by Kevin Yee, Kirby Whittington, Erin Doggette, and Laurie Uttich, is from the book ChatGPT Assignments to Use in Your Classroom Today. It is one of a series of connected activities on prompt engineering. The Summary from the site explains: Teach students via “graduated” prompts how to be specific and detailed to maximize ChatGPT output. …
Prompt Engineering: Rephrase Prompts This assignment, by Kevin Yee, Kirby Whittington, Erin Doggette, and Laurie Uttich, is from the book ChatGPT Assignments to Use in Your Classroom Today. It is one of a series of connected activities on prompt engineering. The Summary from the site explains: Require students to ask ChatGPT a detailed question in more than one way to refine …
Prompt Engineering: Regenerate a Response This assignment, by Kevin Yee, Kirby Whittington, Erin Doggette, and Laurie Uttich, is from the book ChatGPT Assignments to Use in Your Classroom Today. It is one of a series of connected activities on prompt engineering. The Summary from the site explains: Ask students to generate multiple responses from a single prompt. Key Features of This Assignment …
Prompt Engineering: Conversation This assignment, by Kevin Yee, Kirby Whittington, Erin Doggette, and Laurie Uttich, is from the book ChatGPT Assignments to Use in Your Classroom Today. It is one of a series of connected activities on prompt engineering. The Summary from the site explains: Create an assignment that forces students to engage ChatGPT in a conversation. Key Features of …
AI Classroom Activity: Machine Learning This assignment, by Matthew Scadding, from Ravenswood School for Girls in Sydney‘s North Shore, teaches students how machines learn. While this activity as written was used with Year 6 students, it can be easily adapted to other levels. The Summary from the site explains: [This resource focuses on a] two-week computer programming activity to teach the concept …
AI Classroom Activity: Facial Recognition This assignment, by Matthew Scadding, from Ravenswood School for Girls in Sydney‘s North Shore, invites students to use unplugged strategies to identify Disney princesses. While this activity as written was used with Year 6 students, it can be easily adapted to other levels. The Summary from the site explains: The facial recognition task was an unplugged activity …
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 …
Generate and Enact a Writing Style: Examining Writing Style Though Generative AI This assignment, by John J Silvestro, is from the TextGenEd collection in the WAC Clearinghouse Repository. The Abstract from the site explains: This assignment asks students to develop a more critical and actionable understanding of the concept of writing style through the use of AI text generators. Writing style is a difficult concept to teach given the …
Using AI Text as Prompts for Critical Analysis This assignment, by Juan Pablo Pardo-Guerra, is from the TextGenEd collection in the WAC Clearinghouse Repository. The Abstract from the site explains: In this assignment, students are provided with an AI-generated text relevant to a course’s topics and focus and then asked to comment, review, and expand on it using a feature such as “track changes.” In …
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, …
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 …
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 …
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, …
AI in First Year Writing Courses This assignment, by Marc Watkins, is from the TextGenEd collection in the WAC Clearinghouse Repository. The Abstract from the site explains: This chapter discusses the integration of generative AI (GenAI) in education, particularly in first-year writing courses. Recognizing the transformative potential of GenAI, the assignment proposes framing principles to guide students towards ethical and responsible AI use …
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 …
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 …
Promoting Ethical Artificial Intelligence Literacy This assignment, by Mike Frazier and Lauren Hensley, is from the TextGenEd collection in the WAC Clearinghouse Repository. The Abstract from the site explains: This assignment proposes the integration of generative AI tools, such as ChatGPT, into a college learning and motivation strategies course, with the dual focus of enhancing metacognition and promoting ethical AI use. Students …
Who’s Talking: Dada, Machine Writing, and the Found: RiTa.js for Visual Artists and Writers This assignment, by kathy wu, is from the TextGenEd collection in the WAC Clearinghouse Repository. The Abstract from the site explains: This assignment asks undergraduate students to generate text using both analog cut up techniques, as well as a simple Markov procedure, and discuss the power relations inherent in found writing processes. Through reading and making, students …
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 …
Different Ways of Narrating with Curveship-js 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 variations of an underlying story using a system designed for this purpose. The goals are (1) to use the core aspects of narrative, events and their representation; (2) to link narrative …
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