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.
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.