Links and Handouts

Fall 2024

Nov 04 Workshopping Drafts

• Google doc for Nov 04
• (Optional) Conference Sign Up Nov 06 and 07

Oct 28

• Assignment 3 Prompt 
• Demagoguery Decoder Bot (GPT - may need paid account) 
• MyEssayFeedback Analysis of Demagogic Rhetoric prompt

• Sample student papers (from FLEX)
  Riley Drake, "The Rhetoric of Division: Demagogic Rhetoric in George Wallace and Donald Trump."  
  Allison Hartsell. "The Rhetoric of Alex 'The Demagogue' Jones."
  Christopher Le, "Analyzing Mao Zedong's Demagogic Discourse" 

• Google Doc for Draft Paragraph(s) and AI reflection - share name and link to draft paragraph(s) 

Oct 23

• Google Doc Group work Oct 23 
• Potential factors behind our "age of demagoguery?" Why now, and what might be causing this?
  Why has election rhetoric taken on such an apocalyptic tone? Let's crowdsource/brainstorm this complex issue. 
• Slides on inequality. Federal Reserve data on wealth inequality; Fortune Magazine on distribution of stocks, comparative life expectancy

• YouTube - radicalization, and social media's bias towards outrage and extremism (Wall Street Journal experiment
  Tufekci interview).

• Slides on authoritarian populism   

• Flynn unleashing "the gates of hell"; the surge in violent, militaristic political messaging (egs, links, ppt).
  Sudden appearance of guns in political ads. Greitens Rino hunting ad; Teddy Daniels in PA; MGT shooting socialism; Gosar's Attack AOC/Titan
  Kingsman parody from conference still on YouTube.

Oct 21

• Roster and check in  
• Introduction to demagogic rhetoric slides 
• Google doc - applying RM to Wallace, Warner, English 

Oct 16

1. Paper 2 - there was a page for drafts, and one for final.  Put link to final and put today's date.  Samples (10 - 13) 
2. Google doc for creative explorations and playful prompting 

Oct 07

1. Google doc work - evaluation
2. A brief video promo of Hari's text designed for TikTok and a podcast using Hari's text as the knowledge base
3. Podcast based on my Algorithms, Bias, & Critical AI Literacy slides  (esp 3.20)
4. Study guide and essay questions with answers 
5. Feeding NotebkLM unsealed legal filing from Trump court case and making a podcast  Reddit conversation interesting.
   Some people feed everything from the US Budget to contracts to terms of service on apps.
6. Sample student creative work: Jaren Jeorge Raquel, "Creating Video, Music and Art with AI Tools" and Daniel's band promo Experimental Lovers
7. Rick Sanchez singing "Handlebars."Flobots (original song)
8. TOOLS: NotebookLM and HeyGen. Open source alternative to NotebookLM. ElevenLabs AI voice generator
9. Instructor's random creative explorations and (draft) prompt library
10. Creative/writing and LLMs: WritingWithAI Reddit group; writers group on Reddit. LLama forum discusses AI and writing.
    AI and technical writing Reddit group, Marketing.

CUSTOM CHATBOTS

1. Poe Chatbot for basic rhetorical analysis. Uses my first year OER textbook as knowledge base  

2. ChatGPT Custom chatbot help with basic rhetorical analysis of arguments using OER textbook as knowledge base.
   Requires paid ChatGPT account.  

3. How to make a custom chatbot using Poe that includes a knowledge base via uploaded file(s).

4. How to make a custom chatbot with ChatGPT (only available with the paid version.) Can include knowledge base 
   If you wanted to you could upload examples of your own writing and use this to generate new text.  

Oct 02

1.  Video of Hari's TED talk (very close to the written text) His twitter feed, Wikipedia page, and facebook page.  
2. Strategies slides; Kotex, "So Obnoxious,"  SubText. Handout with exercises on strategies.. More Strategies material
3. Google Doc - analyzing Hari 

Sept 30 

1. Google doc drafting strategies and evaluation sections assignment 1 part 2
2. Where to hand in your completed paper assignment 1 part 2 

Sept 25

1. Harari Daily Show 2 and 5 minutes.  0.30 and 6.30. With Gary Marcus
2. Amanpour 1.20 
3. Google doc work drafting claims and evidence 

Sept 11

• Group work assignment 
• Prompt Design Basics, Models, Examples  - use or adapt prompts and work through assignment sections,
  e.g. rhetorical situation, claims, evidence, strategies, etc. Note - for some texts these categories may be
  more or less relevant. 
• You could try AI presentation tools such as CANVA https://www.canva.com/create/ai-presentations/ or GAMMA https://gamma.app/  
• Remember to document and reflect on your use of AI 

Sept 09

1. Key terms for analyzing and evaluating argument
2. Basic terms Kahoot quiz 
3. Google Doc - analyzing Kristof and Snape. Applying terms of argument 
4. SubText & Kotex So Obnoxious
5. Background on Hamilton and Logan: Housing Segregation and Redlining in America: A Short History | Code Switch | NPR (6 minutes)
   Short video from 1975 of a group of young black kids in NYC who stumble upon a Memorial day parade which turns out to be
   a protest against blacks being allowed to buy houses in the area.  One minute TikTok on how housing inequality drives educational inequality
   (“Adam Ruins Everything”). Short video on how racially restrictive covenants impacted San Diego  
   San Diego and Housing: "How discriminatory covenants shaped San Diego homeownership." ,Cristina Kim, Nov 17, 2021 and 
   The hidden history of racism in San Diego deeds, and Racial covenants, a relic of the past, are still on the books across the country.
   NPR Reckoning with Race series,  Race the House we Live In https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mW764dXEI_8  

Sept 04 

1. Google doc for discussing texts and group presentation prep 

2. Mollick supporting evidence links: survey of AI experts/technologists, survey of economists, and AI Impacts, program most authors belong to.

3. AI's that protect data privacy. Use SDSUid to login to Copilot at https://copilot.microsoft.com. "User and organizational data are protected.” 
    Claude.ai: “Models are trained to respect privacy based on principles from the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.”

4. Slides - intro Mollick, Caplan, and Marche  

August 28

1. 18 Months Working and Teaching with A.I. (ppt)
2.  Google doc for group work 

August 26

1. Introductions and in-class activities 
2. Introduction to RWS200 powerpoint 
3. Student Writing Google Drive 
4. Homework for 08/28

Old Links & Handouts 

• Basic terms Kahoot quiz 
• Key terms for analyzing and evaluating argument
• Google Doc group work - Kristof, Bryce, Jabbar, AI texts  

• Review of Mollick, Caplan, Dumitrescu; Programming in Prose & Optimistic Arguments  
• I asked GPT to create criteria for presentations. Note how you can link to output from AI tools.
• AI experiments - student examples. Daniel (Experimental Lovers), youtube version, Jaren (AI music experiment)  

• Short video discussing bias in AI images, "How AI Image Generators Make Bias Worse" (London Interdisciplinary Schools)
• Examples of bias in A.I. image generation - slides.
• If you wish to explore A.I. and bias these two articles may be a useful place to start: "How A.I. Reduces the World to Stereotypes"; Nicoletti and
  Bass, "Humans are Biased. Generative A.I. is Even Worse." See also links above and below in this list. 
• YouTube's algorithms of radicalization: arousal, outrage and extremism (WSJ experiment)  
• Stable Diffusion Bias Explorer. Created by Sasha Luccioni's team at Hugging Face, it lets you "explore the bias of image
  generation models through the lens of professions."
• Vox, “AI Can do your Homework. Now What? 
• Sign up for MyEssayFeedback.ai ChatGPT,  Claude 2 (can upload files) Poe.ai  Bing/Co-pilot (Microsoft) 

• Example Reddit group discussing best uses of ChatGPT
• Searching Reddit - tips. Go to Google, type in keywords that relate to an interest you have, or your major, or a profession you want to join, then
  type site:reddit.com at the end. 
• R & M fan fiction exercise.  Barbie by Blackbeard.
• Google Doc work - Harari et al and part 2 of paper (AI section).  Sample prompts to begin analyzing an argument.
• Mark Marino, "Hallucinate This! An Authorized (Auto)Botography" 
• How it started, how it's going. Ppt overview of last year. 

• Peer review form for paper 1.  Rubric for paper 1 
• ChatGPT Assignments to Use in the Classroom Today. Kevin Yee, Kirby Whittington, and  Erin Doggette. 
  This text explains ways of using AI for education and research, and includes sections on prompt engineering. 
  Students could collect useful material from the text, apply it, test,  and evaluate it.     
• Prompt Design Basics, Models, Examples   

• Analyzing Thompson - Google Doc
  
• Some links related to public thinking 
• Tufekci, "It's the Democracy-Poisoning Golden Age of Free Speech" 
• Some claims and sub claims in Thompson's "Public Thinking" 

• Claims and sub claims in "Public Thinking,"  + GPT4 summary and critique
• Extend, Illustrate, Complicate, Challenge, Qualify - slides 
• Google Doc: the Batman challenge and extending, complicating etc. Thompson 

• Peer Review and MyEssayFeedback and Research Tool Work
• Cadwalladr on dark posts, the collapse of a public, and challenges to free speech 

• Google doc work Tuesday March 12 - May, Hamilton & Logan, Nikole Hannah Jones
• Style as strategy and drafting sections of paper 3: names, frames, definitions.  
• Check in  
• March 21: Google doc for drafting work  

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