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 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 ChatGPT. What similar concepts were found? What additional ideas were generated based on the output from ChatGPT? What misconceptions or untruths were in the ChatGPT 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. ChatGPT, Google Bard, Microsoft Bing, and Perplexity are examples of GenAI text generation tools.

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

Generative Fill in the Adobe Photoshop Beta intelligently analyzes an image and generates new realistic, high-quality content that matches the surrounding context.

Dall-E is an AI model that generates images from specific prompts or descriptions. This can be used for creative writing assignments. If your students can describe it, Dall-E can create it. This ChatGPT alternative can be a fun component to incorporate into scientific illustration projects and more.

Bing Image Creator combines existing images from the internet to generate custom composite images. It can be used in the classroom to create visuals for presentations and design custom graphics.

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.

Text to Voice

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.

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.

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.

Wolfram Alpha