Create course guidelines with students for use of Generative AI in your course
- Work with students to devise guidelines of appropriate ways to engage with ChatGPT in your course.
- Add the guidelines to your course syllabus.
This resource was adapted and remixed from the Maloy, R. W., Trust, T., Butler, A., & Xu, C. (2021). Critical Media Literacy and Civic Learning. EdTech Books. and adapted to Queen’s University context. All content is licensed under CC-BY-SA.
Start by talking to your students. Using critical media literacy, the following guide offers foundational questions you can prompt your students with regarding Generative AI. The questions focus both on the forward-facing content as well as behind-the-scenes work for the medium. The questions address both representation of the power of construction and of distribution. The questions are intentionally broad - they will best be used to begin the process of analysis.
Instructor and Student Guide to Analyzing AI Writing Tools (e.g., ChatGPT)
Questions About the AI Writing Tool
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Who created the AI writing tool?
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Who worked on training the AI writing tool?
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What dataset was used to train the AI writing tool? How does the diversity (or lack thereof) of the dataset influence the output of the AI writing tool?
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What do the privacy policies say?
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What are the limitations of this tool? (e.g., ChatGPT is not connected to the Internet, and therefore, cannot generally (though not always) draw connections to present-day events; ChatGPT has a limit for how much text you can upload)
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Who is harmed and who benefits from this tool?
- What are the unintended and unexpected benefits and consequences of using this tool?
Questions About the Text Produced by the AI Writing Tool
- What information is presented in the text?
- What information is missing from the text? Why do you think that information is missing? (consider that ChatGPT generates text based on its training dataset)
- What type of language and word choices are used to convey ideas and information in the text?
- How are the language and word choices different from, or similar to, the way humans write? Why do you think that is?
- Who is the target audience(s) for this text? How do you know this?
- How reliable, accurate, and credible is the text? How did you determine this?
- What sources, if any, are cited? How accurate and relevant are those sources?
- What biases are present in the text? Why might this be?
- What might be the original sources used to generate this text? Conduct an Internet search and see if you can find the original source (it's likely more than one source!) that the AI tool used to generate this text.