Submitter: Ehren Helmut Pflugfelder, Oregon State U —————————————————— The experiment: In the fall of 2023, I was teaching a course on composition pedagogy. This course includes a larger writing portfolio that focuses on a topic or theme within composition pedagogy …
Submitter: Jason Crider, Texas A&M U —————————————————— The experiment: I am increasingly teaching AI literacy through the lens of cyberneticist Stafford Beer’s dictum POSIWID (the purpose of a system is what it does). POSIWID is a systems thinking heuristic designed …
Submitter: Heidi McKee, Miami U —————————————————— The experiment: To effectively co-write with generative AI, students need opportunities to explore strategies for prompting, developing the prompt literacies they need to know how to use AI (see Selber, 2004, for discussion of …
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Submitter: Roger Thompson, Stony Brook U —————————————————— The experiment: In May 2023, we sent out a set of 13 essays that were either written by students or created with AI. We had 22 faculty participate in the exercise from across …
Submitter: Marc Watkins, U of Mississippi —————————————————— The experiment: Chatbots make poor interfaces for writers—they lack affordances, responses are isolated, and require users to engage in an iterative exchange with a machine, hoping that it guesses the their intent based …
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Submitter: Marc Watkins, U of Mississippi —————————————————— The experiment: Feedback is a cornerstone of any writing course; it also manages to be one of the most labor-intensive activities in education. Many faculty regularly struggle to provide students with formative feedback …
Submitter: Paul Fyfe, North Carolina State U —————————————————— The experiment: I assigned students to “cheat” on their final paper by writing with the help of text-generating AI. Their task was to generate and blend any combination of human/machine-written text so …
Submitter: Nupoor Ranade, George Mason U —————————————————— The experiment: I prepared an assignment to help students experiment with AI tools and create meaningful discussions about “human-in-the-loop” when using AI technologies, and review their limitations in technical communication settings. As leading …
Submitter: Nathan Murray, Algoma U, and Elisa Tersigni, U of Toronto —————————————————— The experiment: Students experimented with using ChatGPT to write essays about whether AI is changing research and writing in the field of media studies. In class, we used …
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Submitter: Jon Ippolito with Greg Nelson and Troy Schotter, U of Maine —————————————————— The experiment: In fall 2023 I taught a course designed to compare student experiences performing digital tasks with pre- and post-AI approaches in collaboration with Greg Nelson …
Submitter: Steven D Krause, Eastern Michigan U —————————————————— The experiment: In Fall 2022 (right before ChatGPT went live), I gave an assignment in an advanced class based on Fyfe’s essay “How To Cheat on Your Final Paper.” Students wrote a …
Submitter: Jennifer Duncan, Perimeter C, Georgia State U —————————————————— The experiment: As freshman composition students began preparing to write rhetorical analysis essays, this guided activity served as a way to integrate an AI into the planning stage of their writing …