Submitter: Cindy Tekobbe, U of Illinois, Chicago —————————————————— The experiment: As a demonstration with and activity in critical AI literacy and traditional literacy practices, I compared a storytelling prompt, given by a Facebook user to ChatGPT-4 on March 28, 2023, …

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Submitter: Jeremy Douglass, U of California, Santa Barbara —————————————————— The experiment: Persona Games use personas, roles, and audiences to situate language models within richly imagined writing ecosystems. Students may play an existing persona game–or invent their own! The general scheme …

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Submitter: Kyle Booten, U of Connecticut, Storrs —————————————————— The experiment: At their best, classrooms can serve as “dialogic zones” (Freedman & Delp 2007) where perspectives collide through conversation. But what if key perspectives are missing? In this activity, based on …

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Submitter: Scott Rettberg, Center for Digital Narrative, U of Bergen —————————————————— The experiment: The Center for Digital Narrative has a weekly event called “Defrag Friday” each week, the purpose of which is to collectively participate in a creative, narrative-based activity. …

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Submitter: Anuj Gupta, U of Arizona —————————————————— The experiment: Many writers worry about being replaced by ChatGPT. To counter this, I teach students to write AI “prompts” to show how their critical thinking and creativity are essential, even where AI …

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