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
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.
Traduttore, Traditore: A Comparative Translation Activity, Katherine Tilghman
Arts and Humanities | Language Interpretation and Translation | Spanish and Portuguese Language and Literature | Translation Studies
Students will translate a paragraph-long passage, then ask ChatGPT to translate the same passage. Students will then compare and evaluate the two translations.