Listed below are some ideas to address AI in your course design.
Create AI Usage Policies
Revise Assignment Design
- Incorporate real-world problem-solving into assignments.
- Create prompts requiring specific readings or multi-step research.
- Include analysis, evaluation, and privilege considerations.
- Emphasize metacognition and the writing process.
- Design creative assignments beyond the traditional “college essay.”
- Include personal experiences and beliefs in writing tasks.
- Utilize course-specific information and non-textual sources.
- Add multi-modal elements to student writing.
Emphasize the Writing Process
- Integrate brainstorming, outlining, multiple drafts, and reflections.
- Require annotation and in-class writing activities.
Discuss Ethics and Implications
- Discuss the large-scale and privacy-related implications of AI.
- Discuss topics like bias, environmental impacts, plagiarism, and copyright issues.
- Stimulate classroom discussions on AI's potential for generating fake or divisive content.
- Visit our AI Ethics page for discussion ideas.
Teach AI Writing Tool Usage
- Use AI tools like ChatGPT to scaffold writing processes.
- Demonstrate AI limitations and analyze AI-generated text.
- Design activities to compare human and AI writing, such as peer review and rhetorical analysis.
Apply Manual AI Detection
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