Language

English (en)

Date Uploaded

Fall 11-25-2025

Activity source

AI-U/v1.0: A student guide to navigating college in the artificial intelligence era, by Elon University. Reused under CC BY-NC license.; Colucci, A., et al. (2023). APA citation style : References ChatGPT. Reused under CC BY-NC license.

Summary

Students consider and dicuss key literacies when using generative AI tools.

Extended Summary

Students are provided the attached handout with an overview of introductory AI Literacy concepts, including

  1. very basic introduction intended for novice users.
  2. potential risks and ethical considerations
  3. data security and safety considerations
  4. how to acknowledge and attribute when using generative AI

After reading this document, students work in small groups to discuss each of the topics.

Students are also asked:

  • Had they considered these topics when previously using generative AI tools?
  • Given these considerations, would this alter their choices when using generative AI in the future? If so, how?

If class time allows, each group of students try submitting the same query or prompt (any relevant to the course topic) to different generative AI tools (including difference instances and versions of named tool, such as Chat GPT and WashU instance of ChatGPT) and then discuss the results.

Student Learning Objectives

  • Become a more informed user of generative AI tools
  • Understand how to cite and provide proper scholarly attribution when utilizing generative AI tools

Assignment Type

Both in-class and out-of-class

Course level

100

Used in course?

yes

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ENST122 St. Louis and the Environment

Type of Student-AI Collaboration Required

Completely AI-generated (human evaluation only, no intervention)

Type of AI Task(s)

Other (enter in Notes to Administrator field)

Uploader/Author Affiliation

Staff

Creative Commons License

Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License

Document Type

Teaching Material

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