Assess the prompts that the students use and the process by which they refine them and then critique and reference the outputs of generative AI rather than the final product. Image: Midjourney “Journey –no people”
Teaching Topic: Teaching WITH Generative AI
Using AI to develop variety in scenario-based assessments
Academics can generative AI technology to help create authentic, meaningful, and scenario-based assessments. Image: Midjourney “Scenarios –no people”
Compare Exam Questions
Individually students write one multiple choice exam question and ask text-generating AI to write a second. In a larger group, students analyze which submitted questions are AI-written, which are human-written, and evaluate which provide a better assessment of learning. Image: Midjourney “Exam Question –no person”
Analyze AI Perspectives
The instructor asks the text-generating AI to respond to a prompt as a specific person – e.g., a historical figure. Students then critique the AI’s response, drawing on their interpretation of the person’s perspective. Image: Midjourney “Perspectives –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 […]
Predict Where AI Excels
Individually students construct one question or prompt on a specific topic that they think text-generating AI can respond to successfully, and another prompt or question they think AI responds to unsuccessfully. In a larger group, students share their work to identify characteristics of prompts to which AI struggles to respond. Image: Midjourney “Predict –no person”
Ask 20 Questions of AI
In small groups, students collaborate to write 20 questions for a text-generating AI about how it works. In a larger group, they consider what the AI’s responses mean for academic integrity, authority, validity, trust, or other important ideas in your course. Image: Midjourney “20 Questions”
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”
