Approaches to AI and Academic Integrity Anna Mills English Instructor, College of Marin Coalition of Feminist Scholars in the History of Rhetoric and Composition webinar with Kathryn Conrad March 27, 2024 Licensed CC BY NC 4.0, except where otherwise noted.
Professors Try ‘Restrained AI’ Approach to Help Teach Writing - EdSurge News
Two English professors have outlined a vision of “restrained generative AI” to help students improve their writing, and they’ve built a software tool ...
AI-Enhanced Learning with Pary Fassihi - Intentional Teaching
I talked recently with Pary Fassihi, senior lecturer in the College of Arts and Sciences Writing Program at Boston University, about her use of generative AI tools like ChatGPT and Adobe Firefly in her writing and research courses. I’ve known Pary...
I write daily, often for hours at a time. I’m an author of fiction and nonfiction, and even when I’m not writing something for publication I fill notebooks with ideas and frequently ill…
Teaching and Learning a Joyful Citation Praxis: Affective Relations for Fostering Community Through Our Compositions
Many of us learned to cite sources to avoid plagiarism or to give credit. Yet there are many more generative reasons to teach and learn citation. This essay offers a teacher’s perspective and a student’s perspective on our personal journeys toward viewing and practicing citation as a way of joyfully generating community with others. We describe our individual struggles, how anti-oppressive, anti-racist, and critical feminist scholars have shaped our thinking, and what we do within the classroom to practice a joyful, generative way of citing. We offer suggestions for how to hold ourselves and students accountable to more inclusive and community-oriented ways of citing by infusing reflective practice throughout the semester in college writing-intensive courses.
Looking for a more ambitious writing experience in an app: an exploration
For years I’ve written articles, interviews, chapters, and books using a combination of software tools. Now I’m looking for something more advanced. Currently my main writing applicati…
Educators, Writing, and AI: Paths Forward Anna Mills, English Instructor, Cañada College Xavier University of Louisiana January 24, 2024 Licensed CC BY NC 4.0
Using Visible Thinking Routines in the Writing Process
Visible Thinking Routines (VTR) were developed as part of the Harvard Project Zero. They are a systematic way to view students' thinking and encourage reflective practice.