Category: Reflections
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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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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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Reflecting on the Many Opportunities to Share in 2023
This past year has allowed me many chances to share updates and ideas related to digital literacy learning, both in my academic writing as well as through regular presentations, workshops, and webinars. Yet, there were also an unusual number of opportunities to speak with journalists, bloggers, podcasts, and others about topics (mostly, of course, AI),…
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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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Follow-Up from “Fitting In, Standing Out, and Building an Identity: Middle Schoolers and Media Literacy”
As we consider the ways in which we might invite our middle school learners to bring their digital literacy practices into the classroom, we then went into a structured breakout room conversation that imagined what four fictionalized students could be creating — fan fiction, gaming, Tik Tok-style videos, and vlogs via YouTube — and how…
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Podcast Interview: Every Day is Earth Day
As we close Earth Day activities, I am grateful to have had the chance to talk with CMLife reporter Teresa Homsi about the intersection of climate change misinformation and media literacy in this April 20 2022 podcast.
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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…
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The “Roumy Cheese Analogy” for Teaching Writing
As part of her keynote, Dr. Maha Bali invited us to build on Ian M. MacKay’s “Swiss cheese model applied to COVID19 prevention” to think about application to writing pedagogy and the use of these tools, as well as systematic and individual challenges that might inhibit our work.