Category: Composition
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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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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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Appreciating Writing Assistance Technologies… Finally?
This post originally appeared on the National Writing Project’s “Ahead of the Code” blog on Medium on August 22, 2020. Appreciating Writing Assistance Technologies… Finally? You would think that, as English teachers, we would have been more appreciative. Even from the founding of our major professional organization, the National Council of Teachers of English, we…
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Resources for ETA NSW
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in Academic Life, Argument in the Real World, Assessing Students’ Digital Writing, Assessment, Because Digital Writing Matters, Best Practice, Books, Collaboration, Composition, Connected Reading, Crafting Digital Writing, Create Compose Connect, Digital Writing Workshop, English Education, From Texting to Teaching, Hybrid Learning, Literacy, Mobile Learning, New Literacies, News and Notes, Online Learning, Open Content, Professional Development, Reflections, Research Writing Rewired, Teaching, Virtual Learning, WritingThis list of curated resources represents work that I have produced from March to May of 2020, all aimed at helping educators as they transitioned to remote learning during the COVID-19 pandemic. The full article. “Critical, creative, and compassionate: Resources for teaching English in an era of COVID-19” appears in Australia’s English Teachers Association NSW’s…
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Resources and Reflections from “Online Environments and Your Students: Strategies to Inform Writing Instruction Webinar”
Earlier this afternoon, I was pleased to be on a webinar, “Online Environments and Your Students: Strategies to Inform Writing Instruction” (Archived Video) with Jessie Borgman (Arizona State University), and Casey McArdle (Michigan State University). Hosted by Brett Griffiths, Director of Reading and Writing Studios at Macomb Community College, we covered a good deal of…
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Archived Webinar: “Multimodal Composition: Beyond Boring Nonfiction”
Earlier this summer, I was invited to collaborate with colleagues from the organization who runs Wonderopolis, the National Center for Families Learning, to co-lead a webinar with their Developmental Editor, Wendee Mullikin. We discuss ways in which teachers can use Wonderopolis as engaging texts for their readers, pivoting into ways that these “wonders” can then…
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Digital Diligence (SIDL 2019 Keynote)
For the fourth consecutive summer, I am honored to present the Thursday morning keynote at the Summer Institute in Digital Literacy. Over the past year, I have become increasingly concerned about dire headlines that move beyond the “kids these days” kinds of arguments we have heard in the past to a deeper, more disconcerting tone…
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Recent Post on The EdCollab: From Wonder to Writing
Please enjoy my most recent post, “From Wonder to Writing: Invite Students Into Inquiry Through Online Articles” on the EdCollab blog. Our best literacy teachers, especially those of you engaging with the TheEdCollab, have known for a long time that we must provide students with mentor texts in order to help them better understand the…
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Preparing to “Build a Better Book”
As often happens in my professional life, earlier this year, I was invited to lead a session broadly related to teaching writing and digital literacy, specifically for middle school students. Unlike my previous experiences, however, this particular opportunity came from CMU’s Center for Excellence in STEM Education‘s partnership with the Build a Better Book Project.…
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Ramping Up Revision – ISTE 2018
[googleapps domain=”docs” dir=”presentation/d/e/2PACX-1vSa7gSsWnE1ma98UxSqx-sFdXUwd0D2xdgRa22s6i3rk_WdQ4-D3009cFEBlQJ_QdRU7WXJQe5wG9Mw/embed” query=”start=false&loop=false&delayms=3000″ width=”640″ height=”389″ /] Wray’s RISE model for offering meaningful feedback (Reflect, Inquire, Suggest, Elevate). Emily Wray’s “Five Minutes of Fame” Talk about the RISE Model What Research Says About Driving Growth for Writers With Practice, Feedback and Revision by Troy Hicks NCTE: “Professional Knowledge for the Teaching of Writing” NCTE/NWP/CWPA: “Framework for Success in Postsecondary…