Teaching Activities from 2026
Chatbot-based feedback + revision and reflection for lab reports, Janie Brennan
Curriculum and Instruction | Education | Engineering | Engineering Education
Students will upload draft versions of laboratory reports to a specially designed chatbot trained on course guidelines and instructor preferences. The chatbot gives structured feedback on the submission, and then students update their work and write a reflection about the experience.
US Latino Demographics Exploration, Ally Milner
Curriculum and Instruction | Education | Spanish Linguistics
Using artificial intelligence for basic analysis of census data, students will explore demographic changes in the Latino population in their city and state of residence, the United States, and their state of residence when not studying at university.
AI for Regression Analysis and More, Eli Snir
Business Analytics | Curriculum and Instruction | Data Science | Education
Students use Copilot and NotebookLM to create a dataset and develop statistical analyses including regression.
Client Communication Strategy Pitch Deck, Staci Thomas
Business and Corporate Communications | Curriculum and Instruction | Education | Marketing
Business Client Communication Strategy - Pitch Deck
Teaching Activities from 2024
Activity: Students find conceptual errors in AI output, Janie Brennan
Chemical Engineering | Chemistry | Engineering | Mechanical Engineering | Physics
Instructor asks ChatGPT questions related to a key concept to find one where ChatGPT has conceptual errors. Ask students to find the errors and explain them.
Employing AI to enhance in-class role playing scenarios, Eric Fournier
Arts and Humanities | Business | Education | Life Sciences | Physical Sciences and Mathematics | Social and Behavioral Sciences
Role playing can deepen student’s engagement with course content and help them develop skills while learning course material. Students will use AI to develop their characters and help them craft compelling arguments in the role-play scenarios
Exploring cultural stereotypes with a critical eye via AI-generated images., Eric Fournier
Arts and Humanities | Social and Behavioral Sciences
Students will investigate cultural stereotypes by generating images in AI, and then providing a critique of those images. This assignment aims to foster awareness, empathy, and critical thinking. By examining AI-generated images, students can actively challenge stereotypes and develop more informed perspectives about the world.
Teaching Evolutionary Principles with AI Image Generators, Jacqueline Garnett
Biology | Ecology and Evolutionary Biology | Evolution | Life Sciences
The purpose of this assignment is for students to practice constructing phylogenies using the principle of parsimony. In this activity, students will use an AI Image Generator to create a grid of images of the same organism and identify a series of traits that vary to build a possible phylogenetic tree.
Incorporating GenAI into Information Literacy Instruction: Find Engineering Standards, Lauren Todd
Curriculum and Instruction | Education | Mechanical Engineering
Students will prompt GenAI tools to find relevant engineering standards that might apply to their mechanical engineering design project, then they must evaluate the responses.
Using GenAI to teach information literacy in Engineering Technical Writing, Lauren Todd, Eliot Boden, and Sam Lindgren
Curriculum and Instruction | Education | Science and Mathematics Education
Students will use GenAI to generate keywords to research their possible final project topics. Then students will use the library's quicksearch to find possible books, articles. Students will reflect on their research process throughout the class.