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AI- Assisted Assignments in Student Learning Circles Kellye Makamson Department of Writing and Rhetoric
Groups of 3-5 students Student Learning Circles Sustained throughout the semester Application of lecture material Authority-empty spaces
WRIT 100/101: First-Year Composition I Stress Testing Claims Counterargument Peer Review AI-Assisted Assignments WRIT 380: Scientific Writing Literature Review
Stress Testing Claims Stress Testing Claims WRIT 100/101 Makamson Complete Parts 1-3 as a group. Complete Part 4 on your own. Part 1 (Group): As a group, consider each statement below. What knowledge does the group have about the issue? Do members of the group agree or disagree with the claim? Why or why not? As a group, what assumptions can you identify in the claim? Do any of the assumptions seem problematic? Under each claim, write a brief analysis of the claim, describing any parts of the claim the group feels needs to be questioned and why. With record crime rates across the nation, cities should invest in robust community programs designed to increase awareness of prevention methods to keep residents safe. Colleges should provide residential counselors in all dorms to protect students and help address violence associated with mental health issues. With students across the nation still suffering from significant learning loss following COVID- 19, schools should increase homework to help bring students back to grade level. Name: Part 1: Analyze the claim Part 2: Stress test claim (Perplexity) Part 3: Dig a little deeper (Perplexity) Part 4: Reflect
Part 1 As a group, consider each statement below. What knowledge does the group have about the issue? Do members of the group agree or disagree with the claim? Why or why not? As a group, what assumptions can you identify in the claim? Do any of the assumptions seem problematic? Under each claim, write a brief analysis of the claim, describing any parts of the claim the group feels needs to be questioned and why.
Part 2 Using Perplexity.ai, stress test each of the claims by checking to see if the assumptions you ve identified as potentially problematic are true. Summarize what you discover under each claim.
Part 3 Under each claim below, there s a question about one of the assumptions in the sentence. Type that question into Perplexity.ai and then summarize what you discover.
Are crime rates at an all-time high? With record crime rates across the nation, cities should invest in robust community programs designed to increase awareness of prevention methods to keep residents safe. Colleges should provide residential counselors in all dorms to protect students and help address violence associated with mental health issues. Are mental health issues associated with violence? With students across the nation still suffering from significant learning loss following COVID-19, schools should increase homework to help bring students back to grade level. Does increased homework lead to better academic outcomes? Claims and Questions To improve graduation rates in the Mississippi Delta, the state should increase funding to underperforming schools, freeing struggling school districts from the financial restrictions associated with lower local property taxes. When might additional funding for schools not lead to better student outcomes? Does cold weather make you sick? While outdoor recess provides students with a necessary break from academic challenges, schools should ensure all students have proper attire before going outside during colder days to prevent illness. Given the higher likelihood of long-term financial success physicians enjoy, as well as the current national shortage of doctors, colleges should prioritize programs that lead to careers in medicine instead of careers with low salaries that are unlikely to lead to financial success in retirement, such as teaching. Are doctors more likely to retire as millionaires than teachers? Are good writers born with that talent? While some people are born with a natural talent for writing, most students need years of practice in focused writing studies to become proficient.
Tracking Their Progress Claim: With record crime rates across the nation, cities should invest in robust community programs designed to increase awareness of prevention methods to keep residents safe. Claim: With record crime rates across the nation, cities should invest in robust community programs designed to increase awareness of prevention methods to keep residents safe. Claim: With record crime rates across the nation, cities should invest in robust community programs designed to increase awareness of prevention methods to keep residents safe. Question: Are crime rates at an all- time high? The writer thinks to prevent increase in crime, there need to be robust community programs. There are already robust community programs like neighborhood watches and such, yet nothing seems to change the crime rate. It needs to be more specific to a cause and what exactly is the crime. It proved our assumptions to be right. Although community programs might be beneficial in some communities, it needs to be more specific on what type of crime, and the claim needs to be more specific. Numerous authorities, including the FBI and the Bureau of Justice Statistics, claim that during the previous few decades, the violent crime rate in the United States has actually decreased. Although violent crime, especially murder, has increased, overall trends don't show an all-time high.
Tracking Their Progress Claim: With students across the nation still suffering from significant learning loss following COVID-19, schools should increase homework to help bring students back to grade level. Claim: With students across the nation still suffering from significant learning loss following COVID-19, schools should increase homework to help bring students back to grade level. Claim: With students across the nation still suffering from significant learning loss following COVID-19, schools should increase homework to help bring students back to grade level. Question: Does increased homework lead to better academic outcomes? The claim above, we could see this being the case for all students due to COVID19, but what age group is most affected by COVID19 that the paper would address the most? There is substantial evidence that students haven't recovered their learning loss from COVID 19. Increasing homework can be an effective way to combat learning loss due to COVID 19, but it can't be relied on as the only method to restore a child back to grade level. Also, increase in homework can have effects on student mental health. The relationship between homework and academic success is complicated, so it seems that increasing homework isn't the answer to improving academic outcomes. Homework's effect is dependent on many factors such as grade level and type of work.
Tracking Their Progress Claim: To improve graduation rates in the Mississippi Delta, the state should increase funding to underperforming schools, freeing struggling school districts from the financial restrictions associated with lower local property taxes. Claim: To improve graduation rates in the Mississippi Delta, the state should increase funding to underperforming schools, freeing struggling school districts from the financial restrictions associated with lower local property taxes. Claim: To improve graduation rates in the Mississippi Delta, the state should increase funding to underperforming schools, freeing struggling school districts from the financial restrictions associated with lower local property taxes. Question: When might additional funding for schools not lead to better outcomes? It does not lead to better student outcomes because it has little student relationship achievement growth. Research shows that funding can help after several years, but the outcomes wouldn t come right away. We think that states should increase funding in underperforming schools. Getting better technology and teachers will greatly benefit the schools. The money can also benefit the learning environment. AI agrees, giving more funding to underperforming schools will greatly benefit them. Lowering taxes will help them invest money into technology for the school, increasing graduation rates.
Write a paragraph reflecting on this experience. What did you learn? Why is it important to stress test claims? What benefits are associated with discussing claims as a group? What benefits are associated with using AI to investigate claims? Was the AI helpful, or did it identify problems with the claims the group had already identified? How might AI be used to enhance discussions about claims made in a debate? Student Reactions
AI can be a valuable tool for generating new ideas and prompting critical thinking. AI can serve as a resource to support or challenge claims by providing quick access to credible information. AI's ability to offer different viewpoints and prompt consideration of various aspects of a topic can broaden understanding. AI's ability to summarize and analyze vast amounts of data can save time and improve research efficiency. AI can offer objective insights and identify potential issues or overlooked flaws in claims. Student Reactions
I really enjoyed experimenting with AI throughout this assignment. It showed me how beneficial AI can be to gathering general knowledge on a topic. This general knowledge can be used to stress test claims which is crucial. If claims aren't stress tested, they may not have any legitimacy and as a writer I want to make claims that have a foundation. Claims are meant to be discussed and/or arguable. Another way to determine these qualities of a claim can be done through discussing it as a group. Group discussions brings different perspectives and sets of knowledge to analyze the claim. I felt that between these two processes, AI provided some definitive proof and knowledge of the questions my group would ask or it would support issues we found in the claims. I think that AI can be used in debate of a claim to establish the "widely" accepted views on a topic or if you ask specific questions you can get an answer that is usually undebatable, which can help or hinder different sides to a debate. I also feel that using AI is tricky because sometimes how you ask a question can determine the amount of information you receive. Contradictory information can occur in these cases. In the end, as my first time exploring AI I think it is a very beneficial tool but like Wikipedia its like a bridge to other sources, not what you should rely on. Student Reactions
With this writing exercise, I learned how much significance a claim holds. It is a waste of time to try an defend a claim that is not fully accurate. That is why is is so important to make sure and stress test claims, to make sure there is actually something there to prove. If the claim is inaccurate, then the entire essay would be inaccurate as well. It helped to discuss these claims as a group because we could all present our different ideas about each one. It was useful to see how everyone's mind went in a different direction with each claim even if it was only slightly. Every reader may react differently from each other on things they read which is why it is so important to be clear on the claim I am trying to make. Student Reactions Even if the claim is very true and defensible, confusing wording can make the claim seem inaccurate. Using AI was very useful to test each claim to see if they were even true statements. AI can help test a claim's accuracy before wasting time trying to prove it. The AI provided new ideas they we may not have thought of which helped redirect our mistakes. AI also confirmed some our previous statements about issues with certain claims and proved that we were on the right track. AI is a useful tool because it filters through so much information so quickly and provides facts regarding the claim's accuracy on the spot. I think it would be useful to enhance discussions about claims made in a debate because it works so quickly while also providing a lot of information regarding every question it is asked.
I learned that many of us agree on the same issues in life, but they differ along the way. It's important to stress test claims, because helps people assess the risks. There are many benefits with discussing claims in a group. There are many different perspectives, and sometime they can help you see a situation through lenses you hadn't thought about before. AI helps with thinking beyond what we would've used our own heads for. It gave us useful insight into a new way of thinking about situations. It identified most of the problems we had identified, but it gave us a more in depth look into our thoughts and ideas. AI always enhances the conversation by thinking outside the box. It helps you find out what you didn't know, and what you hadn't thought of. Student Reactions
Additional Assignments WRIT 100/101 WRIT 380 Counterargument Explore a generated list of concepts on an issue using Elicit. Discuss the concepts as a group to come up with an argument addressing the problem. Use Perplexity to identify potential counterarguments. Literature Review Use The Landscape of Biomedical Research on Nomic to locate a paper on a specific issue. Explore nearby papers in the cloud. Discuss the advantages and disadvantages of using AI to help with a literature review. Peer Review Enter an essay (or parts of an essay) in Lex to get feedback. Provide the essay with that feedback to the group. Each group should review the essays and AI feedback and offer recommendations for revision.
