AI Mini-Games for Peer Review
I love this resource from two Boston University colleagues due to the different focus of each AI mini-game. There is something for every student in your class. These AI mini-games give your students a whole different perspective on peer review, and best of all, students can do this in class with a partner.
The benefits of traditional peer-review are obvious: peer reviewers can offer advice on how to improve your draft, but they are also test readers: by soliciting their curiosity, questions, or even confusion, you will be better able to identify the elements of your draft that work as well as the areas that might need revision or rethinking.
Generative AI, like ChatGPT, can be recruited as a peer reviewer, but it can also do much more! The following four “mini-games” are meant to be played by traditional two-person peer-review partner groups as an alternative to the traditional “read and respond” model of peer review. Partners should read each other’s drafts and choose one of the mini-games below. Each game involves working with ChatGPT in a different way. All games conclude with some time for partners to reflect and discuss.