This challenge explores how AI can assist in building foundational resources while encouraging critical evaluation. Using Padlet’s AI feature, you’ll generate a timeline on a topic from your course.
Using Padlet’s AI feature, you’ll generate a timeline on a topic from your course. The goal is not just to create a resource but to engage students in evaluative judgment—assessing the AI-generated content for biases, gaps, or inaccuracies and refining it by adding relevant events.
Challenge
Padlet’s AI-powered timeline generator offers a quick way to visualize historical or conceptual developments in your subject area. But rather than using the timeline as a finished product, this challenge emphasizes its role as a starting point for deeper inquiry. By asking students to analyze and improve the AI-generated timeline, you’re encouraging critical thinking, source evaluation, and active engagement with course content. This turns AI into a collaborative tool—one that students can critique, refine, and build upon.
Instructions
- Create a free Padlet account → https://padlet.com
- Go to AI Recipes and choose Timeline.
- Enter the Level, Topic, and Time Period relevant to your course.
- Click Create to generate an AI-generated timeline.
- Share the timeline with your students.
- Ask students to:
- Evaluate the timeline for missing, inaccurate, or biased content.
- Conduct research to find additional events or corrections.
- Add new entries with explanations or sources.
Reflect and Share
What does this challenge reveal about the role of AI in teaching and learning? Try it out and share what you discovered in the comment box below, whether it’s your final product, a reflection, or a surprising insight.
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