Assignments That Spark AI Curiosity
These assignments encourage playful risk-taking, creative use of AI tools, and open-ended exploration.
Return to Full ToolkitCreative risk-taking with AI tools
Open-ended experimentation with AI's creative potential
Prioritizes learning journey over predetermined results
Encourages questioning assumptions about AI's role
Level 5 assignments empower students to take creative risks with AI and develop critical perspectives through hands-on exploration.
Interdisciplinary, speculative, or experimental settings where creative exploration is valued
Interdisciplinary, speculative, or experimental settings where creative exploration is valued. Ideal for capstone projects, honors courses, and classes focused on emerging technologies.
Prioritize curiosity, nontraditional formats, and student choice. Encourage multimedia outputs, speculative prompts, and collaborative experimentation with AI tools.
Use AI to stretch genre boundaries, remix traditional forms, or co-design assignments with students. Turn "what if" questions into project-based learning opportunities.
Transform speculative questions like "What if AI wrote your textbook?" or "What if AI evaluated your work?" into project-based learning opportunities where students explore implications through prototyping and critical analysis.
Include prompt engineering as part of the assignment, where students develop, test, and refine their own AI prompts. Evaluate both the quality of their prompts and their critical reflection on the results.
Use prompt decks and creative constraints as low-stakes exploratory activities before higher-stakes assignments. Document discoveries in innovation journals to track learning progression.
When students explore AI's boundaries without fear of failure, they develop comfort with ambiguity and the confidence to experiment with emerging technologies.
Open-ended AI exploration prompts students to reflect on their own thinking processes, the AI's capabilities, and the relationship between human and machine creativity.
Speculative AI assignments develop adaptability, critical thinking, and ethical reasoning—competencies that remain relevant regardless of how technology evolves.
By engaging with AI as a creative partner rather than just a tool, students learn to question assumptions, identify biases, and imagine alternative futures. This approach helps students develop agency in shaping how AI might be used in their disciplines, rather than simply responding to predetermined applications.
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