Even with the availability of AI and digital distractions, authentic writing can and should be done in online learning spaces ...
Recently I raised the subject of ChatGPT with a group of Ph.D. students, on the cusp of faculty careers. Which writing task would they like to hand over to a bot? And which one would they rather not ...
On a blustery spring Thursday, just after midterms, I went out for noodles with Alex and Eugene, two undergraduates at New York University, to talk about how they use artificial intelligence in their ...
An essay this spring on Slate came with a provocative headline: "I Humanize Chatbot-Written College Application Essays for a ...
A student reads short, anonymous passages written by classmates and will vote on which one should move to a final round, where an AI analysis will highlight the literary techniques used in each text ...
Generative AI has become a part of everyday student life in Canada. While institutions focus on misconduct and detection, a ...
When students can respond to questions on mini-whiteboards prior to being called on, they feel more prepared—and everyone ...
Sritama Chatterjee is a second-year Ph.D. student in the Department of English at the University of Pittsburgh. You can find her on Twitter @SritamaBarna. Given this situation, it may be challenging ...
SAGES seminars offer opportunities to connect course content with successful writing strategies. In addition to emphasizing core skills of academic writing (e.g., summary, paraphrase, integrating ...
Michele Haiken isn’t quite ready to do away with student essays. But the veteran English teacher at New York’s Rye Middle School would much rather get her students writing podcasts and movie scripts, ...
The first thing you may notice about Jim Coan’s intimate class is that every student is writing. No one is typing on a laptop or tablet. No phones are out. It’s very analog. The professor of ...
(This is the third post in a five-part series. You can see Part One here and Part Two here.) I’ve got a few that top that list. None of them is an English paper—or blog posts, for that matter. The ...