Assignments

Use Generative AI to update and enhance engagement with a classical rhetorical heuristic–the four questions of Stasis Theory–effective for developing an argument by locating the issue or dispute in a case.

Speculate on AI’s future by creatively expressing your own p(doom), or the probability that AI will harm or help humanity.

Rehearse telephone triage calls with an AI chatbot to practice clinical reasoning and decision-making skills and effectively address patient needs.

Conduct a financial DuPont analysis of Coca-Cola using real-world data, comparing and contrasting your results with an analysis conducted by Microsoft’s chatbot Copilot.

Empower educators to craft innovative activities by training AI tools to enhance student learning outcomes, generate educational content, and design evaluation methods.

Explore the problems and possibilities posed by synthetic images created with generative artificial intelligence, focusing specifically on the relationship between photography and reality.

Improve students' communication techniques by practicing “Rogers’s rules” for active listening with ChatGPT.

Teach students to think critically about the rhetoric surrounding generative AI by interacting with the AI Hype Wall of Shame.

Introduce students to machine learning concepts by engaging them in a fun hands-on activity using Google’s Quick, Draw!

Identify real translingual practices in an interview with a heritage language speaker after rehearsing with a chatbot.