Submitter: Andy Famiglietti, West Chester U —————————————————— The experiment: During the fall of 2023, I assigned an AI powered Genre Mashup assignment as part of my 100 level First-Year Writing class. The assignment strove to use the ability of ChatGPT …
Submitter: Francesca Caparas, De Anza College —————————————————— The experiment: In Spring quarter 2023, I taught a course on Literature and Composition that focused on the relationship between humans and non-human animals in literature. For our unit on Folklore, I gave …
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: Dana LeTriece Calhoun, U of Pittsburgh —————————————————— The experiment: In Spring 2023, I taught a Black Rhetorics course that incorporated digital and new media Black rhetoric. This assignment was placed alongside theoretical and practical work discussing the intersections of …
Submitter: Rob Wittig, U of Bergen, and Mark C. Marino, U of Southern California —————————————————— The experiment: We invited students to play a netprov called the Grand Exhibition of Prompts. Netprov is networked, improvised literature, in which writers collaborate — …
Submitter: J. Seth Lee, Slippery Rock U —————————————————— The experiment: This activity had three goals: introduce ChatGPT as a potential writing tool, discuss how it could work as a brainstorming resource, and prompt discussion about style and the need to …
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 …
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. …
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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Submitter: Addison Eldin, U of Pittsburgh —————————————————— The experiment: Students and I discussed AI in a course called Narrative and Technology, where the focus was on how narrative studies scholarship has engaged with narrative across a variety of media. In …