Interview with Write Now Philly about Teaching Writing in the Age of AI

I had a great conversation with writer Khristina Cabrera from Write Now Philly about, as the title of the interview says, "Teaching Writing in the Age of Artificial Intelligence." As she termed it, we focused on  “navigating AI use in the classroom."

Interestingly, I've used a lot of pixels in this space to describe how and why I think asynchronous writing, often through message/discussion boards, is a strong way to teach in the writing class[room], but I tell Cabrera that while "I’m not disheartened by" AI in a writing pedagogical sense, using an asynchronous teaching model

isn’t as effective anymore, because AI is a big problem in discussion board conversations, so I’m thinking now, what can I do differently to continue to give students a good educational experience? I don’t want to think, how can I prevent them from cheating, because I think once you get into that deficit kind of approach, then it can be more frustrating.

It's certainly an ongoing challenge.

She had many thoughtful questions, and the interview helped me work through some thoughts about teaching and writing with AI.

The published interview promotes a recent publication of mine, but in this case the good news is that was really just a set-up for someone else's work, as I co-authored a forward I wrote for Amy Cicchino and Troy Hick's edited collection Better Practices: Exploring the Teaching of Writing in Online and Hybrid Spaces. Check it out!