I’m going to pull my suggestions out of the comments, so that people don’t have to hunt for them.
My most successful activity so far has been to have students ask the AI to rewrite a short text in colloquial Chilean, then Mexican, then Argentinean. It’s excellent to build vocabulary.
AI can come up with an unlimited number of short texts highlighting absolutely any grammar concept or vocabulary type in any language. If students struggle with past participles, AI can build sentences for you with that grammar form using absolutely any vocab topic you choose.
Another activity is to have students upload a paragraph from an essay they wrote and ask AI to say the same but using half the number of words. And then twice the number of words. This opens a conversation about precision versus wordiness.
Also, AI helps us talk about registers. AI can rewrite a short text to make it more colloquial. Or to make it more formal. Students place the original and the AI version next to each other and isolate words and expressions that make a text more academic, or more professional, or more jargony, etc.
There are also great activities to help students discover AI’s bias, so they can understand what types of activities AI gets wrong. This works great in content courses.
AI will confer an advantage on people who already have an advantage. But it’s only obvious from playing with it and trying to figure things out.
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Tell your students to challenge the opinion of the AI by giving an alternative possibility to explain the meaning, just an example, of historical events. Don’t let the AI simply spew its initial programming without being challenged.
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These are some great ideas. I’ll try them out on my students shortly.
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“My most successful activity so far has been to have students”
It took me a while to realize what your techniques remind me of… and then it hit me: Teach them to jump.
As someone with horse people in the family tree I know that most horses could pretty easily jump out of most pens that people put them in. Horses that are reasonably well taken care of either don’t realize this or never try to jump but every once in a while a horse does figure it out. The remedy is then to teach them to jump on command, which stops their freestyle jumping cold.
(the same is true of cattle but teaching them to jump on command doesn’t work… they need to be hobbled… which is sad).
If a teacher has students use AI on command (as it were) they’re a bit less likely to use it when you don’t want them to….
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