Integrating AI in the Curriculum

GenAI Literacy

GenAI literacy, or the ability to understand and navigate the world of generative artificial intelligence, will become increasingly important as AI is further integrated into various aspects of our academic, professional and personal lives. Just as traditional literacy empowers individuals to communicate effectively and critically evaluate information, GenAI literacy empowers students to think critically about the responsible and ethical use of GenAI tools.

Assignment Ideas to Integrate AI into the Curriculum
When designing assignments, it is essential to communicate your expectations clearly and emphasize the importance of original work and proper citation. Below are assignment examples that teach students to interact with AI safely and effectively.

Speech-to-Text »
Pronunciation Practice »
Digital Storytelling with AI Created Images »
Use Adobe Firefly to create five still images that tell a digital story. Text-to-Image provides students with the ability to use a text description to create an image. Provide an example description: “a five-year-old girl stands at a bus stop with her grandmother as a yellow bus pulls up at the curve as an impressionist painting.” This assignment would be like any digital storytelling project with the enhancement of conversation about digital images created by AI.
Engage Students with Journal Articles »
Students can copy sections of journal articles and paste them into ChatGPT or CoPilot with sample prompts to summarize, explain, organize, and identify key information. They can then compare their own analysis of the same text. They will be able to compare and contrast their analysis with that of generative AI text. What similar concepts were found? What additional ideas were generated based on the output from ChatGPT or CoPilot? What misconceptions or untruths were in the generative AI content?

Tools

These are a small sampling of AI tools. For a comprehensive list of AI tools, visit the AI Tools Directory, a searchable database by category and price.

Text Generation: Natural language AI chatbots generate human-like text for various
purposes, such as content creation, chatbots, and storytelling.

Microsoft Copilot is an AI-powered tool available on the Copilot website, Windows, and Bing Search. It can assist with tasks like text summaries, image creation, code writing, and more.

ChatGPT is a chatbot that uses artificial intelligence to generate human-like text based on prompts. It is developed by OpenAI and based on a large language model. It can answer questions, assist with tasks, and steer a conversation towards a desired outcome.

Perplexity.ai is a search engine powered by artificial intelligence that provides concise answers based on natural language questions, along with annotated links. It’s designed for complex or open-ended searches, making it useful for summarizing lengthy research papers or academic articles.

Claude.ai is an AI chatbot designed to engage in natural, conversational interactions with users. It aims to provide safe, reliable, and coherent responses, leveraging advanced AI techniques to facilitate meaningful and productive dialogues.

Image Generation
Generative AI models can create realistic images, art, and even faces of people who do not exist.

Adobe Firefly is a suite of creative generative AI models designed by Adobe to enhance creative workflows. Features powered by Firefly are embedded in Adobe’s flagship apps, such as Express, Photoshop, and even Adobe Stock. You can create an image from text, add images to an existing photo (Generative Fill), create a Template for use in Adobe Express and Generate Text effects using Generative AI.

Copilot Image Creator utilizes AI to assist users in generating and editing images. By providing intelligent suggestions and automating certain aspects of the image creation process, it helps users produce high-quality visual content that can be used for presentations and design custom graphics.

Audio Recording and Editing

Adobe Podcasts offers tools and features specifically designed for podcast creation and editing. It provides capabilities such as enhanced audio editing, noise reduction, and other advanced audio processing features to help podcasters produce high-quality content.

Audiopen.ai converts voice to text and then organizes your content into a coherent and readable format. The free version enables users to save up to ten three-minute clips. Registration is required.

Suno allows you to create instrumental and vocal music using AI prompts. Registration is required to access the free version.

Speechify is a leading text-to-voice AI tool, can be used as a Chrome/Edge browser extension, on the webpage, or available for download on iOS and Android. The tools requires an account to be created.

Video Generation

Clipchamp is a Microsoft product that allows you to auto create and edit video clips using
AI.

Mathematics

Wolfram Alpha is an AI tool for education that provides answers and step-by-step solutions to complex concepts. Primarily used for math, this tool can essentially coach your students through any math problem using familiar, replicable methods; it acts almost as a tutor or academic coach.

Tools for Faculty

Slidesgo AI Presentation Maker allows users to generate presentations from simple text prompts. Users can customize the AI-generated slides, choose from a number of templates, and download them in an editable format compatible with PowerPoint.

Magicschool.ai assists educators with lesson planning and educational content creation.
Registration is required to access the free version.

Khanmigo.ai helps educators with lesson planning and curriculum development.
Registration is required to access the free version.

Citation Management

Zotero is a free, easy-to-use tool to help you collect, organize, annotate, cite, and share research.

Grammarly offers suggestions while you write in desktop applications and sites across the web, including apps, social media, documents, messages, and emails.

Research

Research Rabbit is a powerful AI research assistant that finds and organizes research papers for you and your collaborators. Enter a keyword or phrase, and Research Rabbit will return a list of relevant papers through Semantic Scholar or PubMed search.

Elicit AI is an academic research assistant that uses AI to automate literature reviews by finding, summarizing, and extracting key insights and citations from scholarly papers. It helps researchers quickly synthesize evidence and generate structured, research-backed reports.

Humata.ai provides users with AI-generated summaries of longer documents and allows
users to ask questions about those documents and receive instant AI-generated answers.

Keenious uses AI to help researchers find relevant scientific publications. Registration is required to access the free version.

Julius.ai allows users to analyze datasets, including complex analyses such as regression, visualize data through dynamic charts and graphs, and build forecast models. Registration is required to access the free version.

Languages

Best for foreign language teachers, Duolingo utilizes AI chatbots to facilitate language practice. The chatbots engage students in conversation, assess their language skills, and provide interactive language exercises and feedback to improve proficiency.

History

Hello History is a one-of-a-kind AI app that facilitates lifelike conversations with historical figures. Students can get a detailed personal perspective on life, history, and the world from some of the most influential figures of all time.

All Disciplines

Learning Prompting is the largest and most comprehensive course in prompt engineering available on the internet with over 60 content modules, translated in to 9 languages and a thriving community.

Magic ToDo helps users break down larger or more complex tasks into individual, manageable steps. This tool is useful to organize and prioritize workload.

Poe is a platform that allows users to interact with a variety of AI chatbots and models in one place. It enables users to ask questions and receive answers from different AI systems based on the user’s use category, facilitating comparative analysis and diverse interactions.