GAiIT Level 2: Case File Analysis
A Situational Application: e-Magazine, “The Lit”
The situation:
At the conclusion of a literacy methods class the instructor challenges the students to use a combination of Ai-generated media and work they had done during the course to create a grade level appropriate issue of the electronic magazine or e-zine called “Lit.” The student only has 5 days to produce it.
Signature assignment topic:
The topic of the class primarily centered around cognitive disabilities surrounding literacy, reading, and communication. As there are dozens and dozens of these disabilities covered in the course, they pick 10 to focus on that were most applicable to their grade level.
The assignment:
The “Lit” E-zine: Select 10 different grade level appropriate literacy deficiencies. Students will select three pieces of their own work during the semester and polish it to be publishable in their issue of “Lit” electronic magazine. The other seven articles may be generated in cooperation with a suitable generative Ai (ChatGPT 4o, etc...). Students may also use their own artwork to populate the articles or may team up with an Ai image generator to produce your stylized article-enhancing support images. Also, within the student’s issue of “Lit” they will create two different ads that address literacy challenges. One is done by the student and the other can be created by Ai. The instructor provides links to a few MS Word-based magazine templates and two sites that offer free templates and ones for sale.
GAiIT Level (2):
The instructor tells the students can (and probably should given the large quantity of work and the limited amount of time to produce and entire magazine issue) utilize Ai as a collaborative team member and the work of the Ai will be included and its contributions cited in the final draft of the assignment.
Students product:
This is the product production sequence for making a G2 (GAiIT Level 2) final project for a literacy course.
Planning: These are students who study the science of literacy. They are not journalists, nor are they document designers. Since Ai was approved and encouraged, the student opens ChatGPT 4o and asks some questions about how to get started. (See Below). After some Ai assisted planning the student looks back into her work and finds three assignments that would be appropriate for her e-zine issue. The student locates three self-written papers written on literacy topics.
Types of writing: Academic articles are written with brevity and efficiency in mind and would bore casual readers to tears. These articles will need to be re-written to maximize readability.
Next: Let's analyze the construction and project build to see if this project exceeds the mandates of GAiIT Level 2.
