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.
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.
Does AI Ask Good Questions? A Discussion Activity, Katherine Tilghman
Arts and Humanities | English Language and Literature | Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies | Philosophy | Reading and Language | Spanish and Portuguese Language and Literature
Students will prompt ChatGPT to generate discussion questions about a course text or artistic work, then evaluate the questions and modify them to make them more engaging and thought-provoking.
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.