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Assignments

  • July 20, 2023. How ChatGPT killed my discussion boards and prompted new prompts. Sarah Cline: Advice on learning and discussion prompts that require students to think beyond the remit of AI responses.
  • July 27, 2023. Instructors Rush to Do ‘Assignment Makeovers’ to Respond to ChatGPT. Jeffery R. Young: EdSurge talked with professors in a variety of disciplines to dig into what they’re trying as they teach summer classes or prepare for the fall.
  • AI Assignment Library. Users are invited to search the assignment library for ideas using disciplines, course level, or student learning outcomes. All assignments are designed to advance student learning in the context of the new information environment created by generative AI.
  • Curricular Resources about AI for Teaching (CRAFT). From Stanford University. Ideas for teaching AI literacy to high school students.
  • Creative ideas to use AI in education. 100+ ideas for AI use in education.
  • The AI Pedagogy Project. metaLAB (at) Harvard. Helping teachers bring AI to the classroom critically, ethically, & responsibly. A curated collection of assignments bringing a critical lens to Artificial Intelligence (AI), built collaboratively with educators. We give teachers the tools to examine AI’s dangers, benefits, and inevitable impact in the classroom.
  • TextGenEd. An Introduction to Teaching with Text Generation Technologies. Tim Laquintano, Carly Schnitzler, and Annette Vee
  • Artificial Intelligence and Information Literacy. University of Maryland. Help your students learn about information literacy and new Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools such as ChatGPT, Bing AI, and DALL-E. Insert this module into your course and either have your students go through it as-is, or modify it to suit your particular needs and course policies. Students should expect to spend 1-2 hours reading/watching the information in this module and completing a couple short quizzes and activities.
  • Acknowledging the use of generative artificial intelligence. Monash University. “As generative artificial intelligence becomes more integrated with our academic lives, you may have assessments that allow or require you to use it. In these cases, it is important to acknowledge the contribution of AI appropriately.”

Bias

Career Tech

  • Aug 2025. AI Prompts for Career Tech Educators – Over 300 prompts broken down by different Career Tech subject areas, designed to help support educators with planning, differentiating, assessment, content creation, career exploration, and more. Eric Curts.

Class discussions on AI

  • June 1, 2025. Diabolus Ex Machina: This Is Not An Essay. Amanda Guinzburg. “Presented to you in the form of unedited screenshots, the following is a ‘conversation’ I had with Chat GPT upon asking whether it could help me choose several of my own essays to link in a query letter I intended to send to an agent. What ultimately transpired is the closest thing to a personal episode of Black Mirror I hope to experience in this lifetime.“
  • April 8, 2025. OpenAI and Studio Ghibli style: Theft or homage? Andrew Maynard. “This week’s episode of Modem Futura explores how OpenAI’s new image generator is stirring up old questions about art, authorship, innovation, and a whole lot more.”
  • March 4, 2025. Accelerating Africa with AI: Governance, Growth & Gains. Swathi Young. “While AI adoption in the public sector is often associated with leading economies, African nations are proving that technology can be leveraged effectively to address unique regional challenges and opportunities. Here’s a look at how AI is reshaping public sector operations across the continent.”
  • Feb 5, 2025. The Rise of AI in Public Sector: A look at 2000+ use cases. Swathi Young. “These comprehensive 2024 Federal Agency Artificial Intelligence (AI) Use Case Inventory serves as a centralized repository of AI initiatives across U.S. federal agencies. It provides transparency into how AI is advancing government missions and improving public services.”
  • AI integration into education. Sovorel Publishing. From Brent Anders. “The Continuum of AI Integration into Learning”
  • How to spot deepfakes. Sovorel Publishing. From Brent Anders. “TRAP Test to help spot deepfakes & not be deceived (what all need to know)”
  • Feb 2025. Thanks to Anna Mills for compiling a list from a few different sources. And thank you to all those who contributed to the different discussions. https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/questions-spark-student-discussion-ai-anna-mills-b3tgc/?trackingId=wXd4D8OPciTeBfISCuTmRQ%3D%3D
  • Feb 5, 2025. CBS Morning News: “AI Use in Schools: Ban or Fan?” AI for Education. video “AI for Education was featured on CBS Morning News where CEO Amanda Bickerstaff discussed the evolving role of AI tools in academic settings. Instead of an outright ban, she argued for a balanced approach and emphasized the need for AI literacy to equip students for the future.”
  • Jan 2025. AI Literacy: What Everyone Needs to Know! Sovorel. “AI Literacy is a skill that ALL must possess. This video serves as a resource for all faculty, students, and all people (young and old) to start understanding this valuable topic. All key AI Literacy components are covered (Awareness, Capability, Knowledge, Critical Thinking), and its importance is highlighted in today’s world.”
  • October 2, 2024. Make AI Part of the Assignment. Marc Watkins. “Learning requires friction. Here’s how to get students to disclose and evaluate their own usage of tools like ChatGPT.”
  • September 5, 2024. Conversation as Care: Why Talking to Students About AI is Our Most Essential Task Right Now. Shelly Jarenski. “A model for talking to students about genAI from asynchronous English Literature courses”
  • Aug 6, 2024. “A.I. ‐ Humanity’s Final Invention?” Kurzgesagt – In a Nutshell video. “Humans rule Earth without competition. But we are about to create something that may change that: our last invention, the most powerful tool, weapon, or maybe even entity: Artificial Super intelligence. This sounds like science fiction, so let’s start at the beginning.”
  • Sep 29, 2023. Is using ChatGPT for school cheating or a new form of learning? Today show video. “Artificial intelligence programs like ChatGPT took educators by surprise — and now some schools are reconsidering their bans on AI as teachers and students become more familiar with the technology. NBC’s Jake Ward reports for TODAY.”
  • 2023. “Education and the epistemological crisis in the age of ChatGPT.” Casandra Silva Sibilin. “The emergence of ChatGPT and its ability to imitate student work has precipitated a crisis in education. Responses range from practical efforts to detect or prevent ChatGPT use to existential reflection about learning and assessment. However, the crisis is also epistemological, with educators struggling to determine what students know and fearing that student knowledge is diminishing. The educational philosophies of Socrates, Dewey, and Freire suggest that recognition of ignorance of different kinds (inquisitive, predictive, and practical) on the part of educators is uncomfortable but essential for improving the aims and methods of education. In this way, ChatGPT and the philosophy of education can be mutually illuminating.”

Copyright and Sources

  • Jan 2025. Copyright and Artificial Intelligence. Part 2: Copyrightability. United States Copyright Office. “This second Part of the Copyright Office’s Report on Copyright and Artificial Intelligence (“AI”) addresses the copyrightability of outputs generated by AI systems. It analyzes the type and level of human contribution sufficient to bring these outputs within the scope of copyright protection in the United States.”

Definitions

  • July 31, 2023. A jargon-free explanation of how AI large language models work. We’ll start by explaining word vectors, the surprising way language models represent and reason about language. Then we’ll dive deep into the transformer, the basic building block for systems like ChatGPT. Finally, we’ll explain how these models are trained and explore why good performance requires such phenomenally large quantities of data.

Equity and ethics

Feedback

  • 1999. The Mentor’s Dilemma: Providing Critical Feedback Across the Racial Divide. Geoffrey L. Cohen et al. “Two studies examined the response of Black and White students to critical feedback presented either alone or buffered with additional information to ameliorate its negative effects.” Pre-LLM, but a good way to think about feedback and if/when it makes sense to bring AI into the process.
  • 2014. Breaking the Cycle of Mistrust: Wise Interventions to Provide Critical Feedback Across the Racial Divide. David Yeager et al. “Three double-blind randomized field experiments examined the effects of a strategy to restore trust on minority adolescents’ responses to critical feedback.” Pre-LLM, but a good way to think about feedback and if/when it makes sense to bring AI into the process.
  • June 19, 2018. Getting Feedback Right: a Q&A With John Hattie. Sarah D. Sparks. “John Hattie has spent his career trying to pick through the “big ideas” in education to find what has the greatest effect on student learning. But the New Zealand researcher said it took him a decade to realize he was looking at one crucial aspect of learning all wrong.” Another pre-LLM, but helpful for framing the conversation around feedback.
  • 2024. Growth Mindset Emojifier Multimodal App. Yulia Kumar et al. “The study introduces the Growth Mindset Emojifier Multi-modal App (GMEMA), a novel application designed to improve educational feedback by including Growth Mindset and emojis. Using OpenAI’s AI models, GMEMA provides emotionally nuanced feedback to boost student engagement and foster growth mindsets.”
  • Essay feedback from UC Davis. Peer & AI Review + Reflection (PAIRR) is a five-part curricular intervention: 1) Students discuss and reflect on short readings on AI and language equity. 2) They complete peer review of draft writing assignments. 3) They prompt an AI tool to review the same drafts, with instructor guidance on privacy settings. 4) They critically reflect on and assess both types of feedback, considering their goals and audience(s), and 5) They revise.
  • April 2025. Can Artificial Intelligence Coach Faculty to Utilize Growth Mindset Language? A Qualitative Analysis of Feedback Statements. Michael J. Furey. “Feedback is at the core of competency-based medical education. Learner perceptions of the evaluation process influence how feedback is utilized.”
  • June, 2025. Peer and AI Review + Reflection (PAIRR): A Human-Centered Approach to Formative Assessment. Lisa Sperber, Marit MacArthur, Sophia Minnillo, Nicholas Stillman, Carl Whithaus. “Results indicate that AI tools offer useful feedback when combined with peer review. Students found the similarity between AI and peer feedback reassuring, while also valuing their complementary perspectives. Moreover, by evaluating AI outputs, students developed AI literacy, gaining familiarity with AI feedback’s affordances and limitations while learning ethical ways to use AI in their writing processes.”
  • n.d. 2.4.4 Activity: Wise Feedback. Open Learning Library. “Here, you will have a chance to practice using asset framing while giving Wise Feedback.”

Files from Jon Ippolito

Shared with permission. These are short screen captures that show different queries in GPT4.

Grading

  • Sept 2024. SHARE Technique to Improve Assessment & Assignments in the Age of AI [5 Key Components]. “I go step by step with each part of the SHARE technique to discuss different ways to design or redesign assignments and assessments now that everyone has access to the generative AI. This explains each part of the SHARE technique (all 5 components) and walks you through what to do and how to actually use AI to help with the whole process.”
  • Sept 6, 2024. The Imperfect Tutor: Grading, Feedback and AI. Patricia Taylor. “Patricia Taylor has found using AI takes more time and creates more problems than not if instructors want students to get meaningful feedback on their work.”
  • Dec 8, 2024. Can AI Assist You With Grading? Probably. Jen Roberts.
  • Dec 2024. Can AI provide useful holistic essay scoring? Tamara P. Tate, Jacob Steiss, Drew Bailey, Steve Graham, Youngsun Moon, Daniel Ritchie, Waverly Tseng, Mark Warschauer. “This study analyzes the output of multiple versions of ChatGPT scoring of secondary student essays from three extant corpora and compares it to quality human ratings. We find that the current iteration of ChatGPT scoring is not statistically significantly different from human scoring; substantial agreement with humans is achievable and may be sufficient for low-stakes, formative assessment purposes.”
  • Jan 5, 2025. AI-Assisted Grading: A Working Workflow. How I changed my mind about AI-grading. Jérémie Rostan. “As is obvious from the messages posted in AI-related teacher support groups, automated grading is, for many, the Holy Grail of AI integration. As a former teacher, I can certainly understand why. It is not only the hundreds of pages of student work that have to be read, but also the internal struggle over the appropriate “scores” to give them based on generic rubrics.”
  • May 23, 2025. Teaching Isn’t Obsolete, but Our Assignments Might Be. Jarek Janio. ““If we define learning as behavior, what’s the point? Once you identify the expected behavior, ChatGPT is going to replicate it. So what can faculty do that ChatGPT can’t?” It’s a fair challenge and it gets to the heart of why behaviorism is more relevant than ever.”

How-To guides

Language

  • Oct 2023. The surprisingly subtle ways Microsoft Word has changed how we use language. Victoria Woollaston.
  • March 28, 2024. How not to talk about AI in education. Helen Beetham. At the risk of adding to the attention vortex, I suggest how we might begin to talk differently about AI in higher education – and in recalibrating our attention, perhaps even find other things to talk about.

Learning modules and spaces

  • Center for Socially Responsible Artificial Intelligence. PennState. “CSRAI aims to promote, practice and study socially responsible ways of building, deploying and using AI technology”
    • They are also offering a “Cheat-a-thon” in early 2025. Consider checking this out with your students.
  • A Master Course from John Warner: Teaching Writing In An Artificial Intelligence World. Everything you need to know about teaching, facilitating, & managing the writing process (while dealing with our current AI reality).
  • Generative AI Hub. A repository from University College London. Helps for instructors and students.
  • Introduction to AI: Module 1. As learners navigate this course through the lens of an avatar interacting with modern technologies, they will explore and evaluate the ethical implications of these technologies and how they shape our world. Target audience: K-12
  • Artificial Intelligence Teaching Guide. Standford Teaching Commons. Artificial intelligence technology has become increasingly sophisticated and readily available. We believe that educators can contribute to how this important technology is understood and used. We invite you to engage thoughtfully and attentively with this teaching guide as a way to learn about and positively influence the dialogue around artificial intelligence in education.
  • 2025. AI fluency. Anthropic. “Learn to collaborate with AI systems effectively, efficiently, ethically, and safely”

LibGuides

  • LibGuides Community. A great resource of lots of different LibGuides. If you search for “AI”, you can find a number of options.

Literacy

  • April 30, 2024. The Artificial Intelligence Assessment Scale (AIAS): A Framework for Ethical Integration of Generative AI in Educational Assessment. Mike Perkins, Leon Furze, Jasper Roe, and Jason MacVaugh. “The AIAS empowers educators to select the appropriate level of GenAI usage in assessments based on the learning outcomes they seek to address. The AIAS offers greater clarity and transparency for students and educators, provides a fair and equitable policy tool for institutions to work with, and offers a nuanced approach which embraces the opportunities of GenAI while recognising that there are instances where such tools may not be pedagogically appropriate or necessary.”
  • News literacy in the age of AI. AI will impact the digital landscape in ways we have yet to imagine. But we do know that news literacy skills and knowledge — like checking your emotions before you share content, consulting multiple sources or doing a quick reverse image search — will be more vital than ever.
  • 2024, Oct 4. A Call for Digital Literacy Across the Curriculum. Tahneer Oksman.
  • Oct 9, 2024. Algorithmic Literacy, AI Literacy and Responsible Generative AI Literacy. Andrew Cox. “The paper then outlines a definition of responsible generative AI literacy that conceives it as more than effective prompting.”
  • AI and Information Literacy. University of Maryland. This course content is offered under a CC Attribution Non-Commercial license. Content in this course can be considered under this license unless otherwise noted.
  • AI in Education. University of Sydney. The content in this Canvas course is licensed under a Creative Commons BY-NC 4.0 licence. This license allows you to distribute, remix, adapt, and build upon the material in any medium or format for non-commercial purposes only, and only so long as attribution is given to the original source.
  • Mar 27, 2025. Tracing the thoughts of a large language model. Anthropic. “Language models like Claude aren’t programmed directly by humans—instead, they‘re trainedon large amounts of data. During that training process, they learn their own strategies to solve problems. These strategies are encoded in the billions of computations a model performs for every word it writes. They arrive inscrutable to us, the model’s developers. This means that we don’t understand how models do most of the things they do.” Are we anthropomorphizing how we talk about AI tools?
  • April 14, 2025. What does AI Literacy look like for young people aged 14–19? Doug Belshaw. “Our focus is research and analysis which aims to find gaps in provision for younger audiences.”
  • 2025. AI Literacy Frameworks. Doug Belshaw.

Pedagogy

  • 2023. TextGenEd: Teaching with Text Generation Technologies. WAC Clearinghouse. “The fully open access and peer-reviewed collection features 34 undergraduate-level assignments to support students’ AI literacy, rhetorical and ethical engagements, creative exploration, and professional writing text gen technology, along with an Introduction to guide instructors’ understanding and their selection of what to emphasize in their courses.”
  • July 2023. Generative AI writing tools: How they work, what they do, and why they matter. Lucinda McKnight & Troy Hicks: or teachers to integrate generative artificial intelligence writing tools (GAIWTs), like ChatGPT, into their classrooms, we offer insights from a theory-informed pedagogical framework, Bill Green’s Literacy in 3D model.
  • July 20, 2023. The New Normal: Teachers Steering AI to Its Full Potential. Matthew Wemyss: Knowing our students deeply remains essential – these tools cannot replace our insight into each learner’s needs and capabilities. We must be discerning, prompt iteratively, and guide students to apply effort rather than automatically accepting AI outputs.
  • July 26, 2023. Cognitive Load Theory Explained. Jamie Clark: 1-page summary for thinking about best teaching practices.
  • July 1, 2023. Why AI detectors think the US Constitution was written by AI. Benj Edwards.
  • Aug 16, 2023. Effectively Using ChatGPT in Education According to the TCOP Model. These slides and the video presentation were first introduced at the Idaho State University Graduate Research Symposium. Then, they were adapted to fit the needs of community college professional development in-service sessions. The updated version was presented at the College of Southern Idaho on August 15, 2023.
  • 2023. Bloom’s Taxonomy Revisited. Oregon State University.
  • 2023. The AI Pedagogy Project. metaLAB at Harvard. A collection of assignments and materials inspired by the humanities, for educators curious about how AI affects their students and their syllabi.
  • Dec 7, 2023. ASU students share America’s untold stories using AI, AR. Krista Hinz. “Over the semester-long project, students worked with tools like generative artificial intelligence and augmented reality to tell the story of America’s untold heros.”
  • Nov 13, 2024. AI is my frenemy. Justin Shaffer. “How to deal with the guilt that accompanies improved efficiency when using AI in the classroom”
  • 2025. Feedback and Revision. Eli Review. “This short module examines the power of feedback and revision to facilitate learning. We will cover what feedback is (and isn’t) and what makes for good revision (and what doesn’t). We will also provide resources that can help you learn to become a better teacher of feedback and revision.”
  • May 17, 2025. What Counts as Learning When AI Can Imitate It? Jarek Janio. “Artificial intelligence can generate essays, solve problems, and simulate fluent conversation. But that’s not deception. It’s behavior. AI responds to prompts with outputs shaped by exposure to vast datasets and patterns reinforced during training. It behaves the way it was programmed”

Prompting

  • June 2024. AI literacy and its implications for prompt engineering strategies. Nils Knoth, Antonia Tolzin, Andreas Janson, Jan Marco Leimeister. In this present study, we address this issue, introduce a skill-based approach to prompt engineering, and explicitly consider the role of non-experts’ AI literacy (students) in their prompt engineering skills. We also provide qualitative insights into students’ intuitive behaviors towards LLM-based AI systems.
  • November 24, 2024. Getting started with AI: Good enough prompting. Ethan Mollick. “treat AI like an infinitely patient new coworker who forgets everything you tell them each new conversation, one that comes highly recommended but whose actual abilities are not that clear. And I mean literally treat AI just like an infinitely patient new coworker who forgets everything you tell them each new conversation. “
  • April 2025. Better Prompts, Better Answers: Intro to GenAI Prompting for Educators. WeCanEduTech. “In this video, you’ll learn how to create robust prompts using a simple but powerful framework. You will also see real examples for teaching, assignment design and more.”
  • Anthropic Prompt engineering overview.