Evaluate: Bias 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: Assign students to prompt ChatGPT to provide a detailed output (ideally on a topic you pre-select) and then require them to evaluate to what extent the software’s …
Evaluate: Bias 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: Assign students to prompt ChatGPT to provide a detailed output (ideally on a topic you pre-select), then require them to evaluate to what extent the software’s answer …
Evaluate: Write a Rebuttal 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 first obtain an argument from ChatGPT, then craft a rebuttal. Key Features of This Assignment Argument Acquisition Students are instructed to obtain an argument …
Prompt Engineering: Length 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 alter the prompt to provide the same information in different lengths. Key …
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, …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
cmpttnl cnstrnt: An Exercise in Constraint and Prompt Engineering This assignment, by Douglas Luman, is from the TextGenEd collection in the WAC Clearinghouse Repository. The Abstract from the site explains: As new context-aware generative models challenge the human relationship to language, students benefit from first-hand observation of these models’ successes and limitations. Using these models often requires using “prompts” (natural language-based directions) to guide their output. …
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 …
Cyborg Texts: A Procedural Creativity Assignment This assignment, by Jason Boyd, is from the TextGenEd collection in the WAC Clearinghouse Repository. The Abstract from the site explains: This assignment engages undergraduate students in the hands-on practice of procedural creativity through playing with, ‘hacking,’ or building text generators that produce creative outputs. Students are asked to draw upon the material covered in lectures and …
Critical Assessment and Analysis Exercise This assignment, by Nathan Murray and Elisa Tersigni, is from the TextGenEd collection in the WAC Clearinghouse Repository. The Abstract from the site explains: This assignment asks first-year critical writing students to evaluate the reliability, factuality, and internal reasoning of three anonymized texts, one written by AI, that present conflicting opinions or information. By considering the strengths …
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 …
Transforming Writing Assignments with AI: Approaches for Using Artificial Intelligence for Fostering Student Engagement and Comprehension This assignment, by Daniel Hutchinson (History) and Erin Jensen (English), is from the TextGenEd collection in the WAC Clearinghouse Repository. The Abstract from the site explains: This assignment asks first-year undergraduate history and English students to use AI writing models to aid in accessing and understanding readings on specific topics. Students used AI to understand the texts …
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 …
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 …
Made Not Only By Me: Coauthoring a Children’s Book with Text and Image Generation This assignment, by Brandee Easter, is from the TextGenEd collection in the WAC Clearinghouse Repository. The Abstract from the site explains: This assignment asks undergraduate students to explore image and text generation technologies to create a short, illustrated children’s book. Although text and image generation technologies are different, experimenting with them in parallel challenges students to reflect …
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