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”
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AI Ethics: Fostering Digital Literacies
This technique helps students to critically reflect on digital technology and its use in education/for study. Image: Midjourney “Digital Literacy –no person”
Poetry Feedback
This idea explores use of AI feedback poetry to engage students with the feedback they receive and give in new ways. Image: Midjourney “Poetry –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”
Understanding Markov Chains
In this undergraduate assignment, students use a manually applied algorithm to generate a Markov Chain from a given short extract of language. Image: Midjourney “Markov Chains –no person”
Testing ChatGPT Response Variety to Introduce Natural Language Processing
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 them to investigate the cosine similarity of word embeddings in multiple responses to the same prompt. These assignments succeeded […]
Argumentative Synthesis Assignment Sheet
In this composition assignment, students compose an argumentative piece about the topic of “AI and Writing.” Image: Midjourney “Synthesis –no person”
