Classroom Activity

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 …

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 …

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, …

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 Grand Exhibition of Prompts

This assignment, by Mark C. Marino and Rob Wittig, is from the TextGenEd collection in the WAC Clearinghouse Repository. The Abstract from the site explains: The Grand Exhibition of Prompts, a netprov In this collaborative creative writing game on a threaded discussion platform students experiment with AI image-making programs, but concentrate on the expressive, literary power of …

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 …