Below are ideas for how faculty/instructors can design learning activities that are generative AI-informed, as well as teaching activities that incorporate GenAI as a tool.
Teaching Activities that Incorporate Generative AI as a Tool
- Book Guide - Using Chatbots in Classroom Assignments and Activities
A TTC-created guide that highlights ideas for using chatbots in classroom assignments and activities. The guide is based on the ChatGPT Assignments to Use in Your Classroom Today book from the University of Central Florida. - Generative AI Recipes: Lesson Planning and Study
A TTC guide that provides examples of leveraging generative AI to automate the creation of study materials, project outlines, lesson plans, and course materials. - Using GenAI to Improve Assignments
As we continue to integrate technology into education, AI tools offer exciting opportunities to improve the design and effectiveness of assignments. The following resource provides a series of prompts that educators can use to leverage AI in refining their assignments. These prompts aim to enhance active learning, increase student engagement, improve clarity, and make general improvements to the assignments. - Teaching Writing with Chatbots (Sweetland Center for Writing)
This site outlines why instructors might consider teaching writing with a chatbot, course policies for chatbots, evidence-based writing pedagogy, and sample writing assignments using chatbots.
Generative AI-Informed Teaching Activities
- GenAI Chatbot Prompt Library for Educators
A library of prompts to help you lesson plan and do administrative tasks with GenAI chatbots - Generative AI Assignment Decision Tree
This decision tree walks instructors through a set of questions to determine whether or not their assignments need revisions when considering teaching and learning in a generative AI era. - Designing assignments in the generative AI era
This guide contains authentic activity examples for faculty/instructors to consider when planning a course in a the generative AI era. - Course and Assignment (Re-)Design
This page contains course and assignment (Re-)Design ideas, Strategies for Engagement and Assessment, Integrating AI tools into Course Design, and Skills and Competencies for an AI-Augmented World. - Transforming Discussions: Redesigning the discussion/reflection prompts
Exemplars and strategies for writing effective discussion prompts that are generative AI-informed. - Authentic Assessment and Assessments with Rubrics
Authentic assessment and rubric exemplars - Canvas External Tools
Consider utilizing one the many U-M Canvas external tools in your course. Canvas external tools allow instructors to design engaging, peer-to-peer learning activities that are generative AI-informed. - Nobody Wins in a Academic-Integrity Arms Race (Chronicle Article - sign in with your U-M email for a free account)
This article tackles the implications that generative AI is having on learning assessments.
