Category: Teaching
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AI in Assignments, Assessments, and Authentic Student Engagement
Reflecting on a semester of teaching my own students, collaborating with PK-12 colleagues in a sustained series of PD experiences, and co-facilitating a higher education faculty learning group (FLC), I offer reflections on the intentional integration of AI in light of the WestEd Digital Fluency group’s “Friction by Design” framework for integrating AI in instruction.
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How are you teaching writing in the age of AI?
Though we are now many years into the “new normal,” with AI-infused tools and the ubiquitous chatbots still dominating conversations in education, it seems as though many resources are still focused on providing educators with tips and tricks for using AI in their own work or teaching students about AI, with only limited use of…
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New Resource from NCTE and the Library of Congress
As a project leader in a Teaching with Primary Sources grant that was sponsored by NCTE and the Library of Congress, I am pleased to re-post the following from a recent update:
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AI in College Writing
As the new semester begins, many faculty are again engaged in an ethical debate about the ways in which their students might use AI in their writing assignments, whether with explicit guidance and permission, or otherwise. This past week, I was invited to join educational futurist Bryan Alexander and my colleague and collaborator Daniel Ernst…
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Survey Invitation: Perceptions of AI Writing Tools in the College Composition Classroom
As AI tools becomes more common and stakeholders in the higher education community are both interested in — and concerned about — their use, we invite instructors to share your insights on the role of AI in writing instruction in this survey.
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Podcast Episode: Conceptually Speaking
With thanks to Trevor Aleo for the opportunity to think through some new ideas related to new literacies and teaching digital literacies, please enjoy this recent episode of “Conceptually Speaking.”
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Pivoting the Conversation on AI in Writing
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in Academic Life, Ahead of the Code, Assessment, Best Practice, Collaboration, Composition, Critical Perspectives, English Education, Literacy, Multiliteracies, New Literacies, News and Notes, NWP, Presentations, Professional Development, Reflections, Teaching, Writing, Writing Assistance TechnologiesAs ChatGPT has heralded the “death of the college essay” and “the end of high school English, we could be well served to lean into the idea that we need to both rethink our writing assignments and to invite our students to “cheat” on them.
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Invitation to an Inquiry: Intentional Integration of Digital Literacies into an ELA Lesson
My colleague Kristen Hawley Turner and I have been thinking about the integration of technologies into instruction, specifically toward the development of digital literacies, for a long time, and we are looking for collaborators for our next project.
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Embracing the “Both/And” of Digital Writing
Embracing a “both/and” stance toward technology, we can push back against the kinds of dichotomies that characterize most language arts instruction. What might you do to move any of your ELA assignments toward a “both/and” stance, embracing the opportunities that you have right now to utilize the technologies available to you and your students?
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“Digitally Writing New Histories” Unit Plans Released
The Digitally Writing New Histories project was designed with principles of best practice for professional learning in that it is timely, inquiry-based, connected to relevant curricular reforms. We thank the many teachers who created the the inquiry-driven units that are in alignment with the C3 Framework and make use of primary sources in critical and…