Generative AI Assignment and Activity Ideas

• Use ChatGPT to generate solutions to technical assignments that can then be analyzed for correctness.
  
• Analyze generative AI tools with a critical media literacy lens.
• Discuss the ethical issues related to AI, including the relationship between AI and  research ethics, the way AI perpetuates racial bias, and the potential issues with machine-based learning.
  
• Use ChatGPT to generate quiz questions or as a tool for remixing written work.
• Develop a guided exploration of ChatGPT, including a step that involves AI text detectors.
  
• Revise your reading response assignments to account for AI usage.
  
• Test ChatGPT as a tool for supporting language learning.
  
• Consider how ChatGPT might be used as a study aid.
• Explore chatbot prompting and show students examples of different prompt approaches.
• Use generative AI tools as part of other active learning experiences in the classroom, such as jigsaw and think-pair-share.
• Use AI to enhance creativity.
• Experiment with AI detection and content rephrasing tools. 
• Integrate “next-generation genres” into your writing assignments.  
  

See Faculty Learning Community AI Activities and Stay Current on Higher Education Generative AI Trends for additional ideas.

Generative AI in Higher Education Lesson Plan

This pre-packaged 30-minute lesson plan is designed to help you begin a conversation about AI with your students. The lesson, developed by DePaul University Senior Instructional Designer Jes Klass, is divided into the following parts:

1. Lecture notes: What is Generative AI? 
   
2. Lecture notes: Why did our relationship with AI change drastically in late 2022? 
   
3. Small group activity: How can we work with AI to make our lives easier? (5 minutes)
   
4. Whole-class activity debrief (7-10 minutes)
5. Small group activity: What uses of generative AI in higher education are inappropriate? (5 minutes)
   
6. Whole-class activity debrief and drafting of class charter (7-10 minutes) 
   

The following resources map the lesson parts and are meant to be copied and adapted to suit your context.