Teaching with AI: Assignment Tips

Talk through various writing scenarios with the students. 

Invite your students to have an honest discussion about these and related questions.

Split assignments into two groups: Where using AI is encouraged, and assignments where using AI can’t possibly help.

Weave ChatGPT into lessons by asking students to evaluate the chatbot’s responses.  

Assign reflection to help students understand their own thought processes, motivations for using these tools, and the impact AI has on their learning and writing.

Give them the opportunity to rewrite an essay or retake a test if they don’t do well initially (students are less likely to cheat under those conditions). 

Teach students to contest it. Students in every major will need to know how to challenge or defend the appropriateness of a given model for a given question.

We should be telling our undergraduates that good writing isn’t just about subject-verb agreement or avoiding grammatical errors—not even good academic writing. Good writing reminds us of our humanity, the humanity of others and all the ugly, beautiful ways in which we exist in the world.

(from a variety of articles about teaching & AI)