Students engage in a number of activities to think about what ChatGPT misses and what they can learn about language models when contrasting AI output to human-created work. Image: Midjourney “Critical Literacy”
Item Type: Assignment/Project
Stylin’ and profilin’
Use AI-generated text to delve into the specifics of literary styles by analyzing its approximation of different authors’ writing. Image: Midjourney “profilin –no person”
Challenging AI’s informational influence
Explore AI’s profound informational, contextual, and emotional influence by analyzing responses to prompts to generate “emotion images.” Image: Midjourney “influence –no person”
Game development with chatbots
Use an AI chatbot such as ChatGPT to assist in the design and development of a hybrid and unique concept computer game Image: Midjourney “Game Development –no person”
Using AI to support student success
Use AI to generate examples for a newly introduced research proposal assessment and have students review and evaluate the examples. Image: Midjourney “Student success –no person”
Evaluate AI Output
The instructor uses AI to generate work, like a thesis, short analytical paper, theater dialogue, computer code, image, or even musical composition. In groups students analyze the sample work created by AI, with particular attention to evidence, sources, perceived bias, or other important elements for your course. Students can then revise it for improvement in […]
Socially Annotate OpenAI’s privacy and service Terms
Use an annotation tool like Hypothesis to have students read and comment upon the TOS of a chatbot like ChatGPT. Do this before you ever ask them to use one of these tools as a way of interrogating what is happening with our data when we engage with generative AI. Image: Midjourney “Annotation –no person”
Critical Assessment and Analysis Exercise
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. Image: Midjourney “Analysis –no people”
Neuroqueering AI: The Text Generator as Emergent Collaborator
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. Image: Midjourney “Emergent –no person”
