Document Type
Other
Publication Date
Spring 2025
Abstract
This curriculum unit is a critical literacy unit about AI designed for first-year writing. The introductory composition course prepares students for academic writing with a heavy emphasis on writing-as-process, critical reading, gathering information, inquiry-based writing, and taking research notes. This curriculum unit pairs the writing portion of the course with an AI critical literacy framework for students.
This is a 20-hour, 9 lesson unit designed for an introductory composition course:
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Prepwork: Preliminary Assessment and AI Policies
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Lesson 1: What is AI?
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Lesson 2: The History of AI
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Lesson 3: How Does AI Work?
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Lesson 4: AI in Action
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Lesson 5: Academic Integrity and AI
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Lesson 6: Ethics and AI
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Lesson 7: Society, Medicine, Business, and Education: The Current AI Landscape
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Lesson 8: The Future of AI
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Lesson 9: Writing and AI
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Post-Assessment and Reflection
Each lesson follows a similar structure, with some variation:
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Exploring source material and an inquiry-based assignment
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Small group note-taking / discussion
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Whole class discussion / presentation
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Low-stakes writing assignment
There are also 3 high-stakes essays and a revision/reflection essay embedded at the end of lessons 2, 5, 8, and 9.
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Comments
This classroom material was created for the 2024-25 CUNY Building Bridges of Knowledge program funded by the Lumina Foundation to support students to use generative AI ethically and responsibly.
The document shared here is a PDF of a Google Doc. You can access the Google Doc directly here:
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1qrYmFVYQhdu_XmTQKaR05mqtR19698kXNjyu341cl8s/edit?usp=sharing
The Google Slides are paired with a set of Teaching Notes, which you can access here:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1gmcBb83g_9Gsc6jnzCCehQUxPyOneXA1mazb_7--CIQ/edit?usp=sharing