AI and the Teaching of Writing: Design Sprint

This two-hour virtual intensive offers educators the time, space, and support to redesign a key writing assessment in response to generative AI. First, we’ll deconstruct a signature assessment into its essential process components. Then, using strategies for effective prompting, we’ll use chatbots to test the “vulnerability” of each of those components, acting as students who might use AI to bypass essential learning. We will share and discuss the results of our vulnerability tests and consider next steps. Participants will redesign the assessment to include “AI-resistant” and “AI-assisted” strategies that require student engagement and critical thinking in meeting assessment criteria. Participants will share and discuss their redesigns.

Participants will:

• Clarify the purpose and key outcomes of a signature writing assessment
• Deconstruct that assessment in order to understand its “AI vulnerability”
• Use “AI-assisted” and “AI-resistant” strategies to redesign the assessment to encourage student engagement and critical thinking

AUDIENCE

This workshop is ideal for teams of 2-4 middle school or high school educators who teach the same course. Participants should come with digital access to a writing assignment that they are concerned is vulnerable to inappropriate use of generative AI. This is usually a summative assessment (essay, research project, presentation, etc.). Helpful materials would be prompts/descriptions, rubrics, models of excellence, etc. Essentially, bring what you would give students to help them succeed on the assignment.

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CANCELLATION POLICY

Life happens. We understand that there will be times when you cannot attend a workshop that you have registered and paid for. Registration may be transferred to a different person up to 7 days before a session. However refunds will not be given, and a session missed for any reason will not be refunded.Below we have outlined our cancellation and refund policy, which we have in place to ensure the most accurate numbers when we secure well in advance locations, catering, and facilitators. Thank you for understanding.For our ongoing programs or one-day intensives, refunds are available (less a $50 processing fee) up to 22 days before the scheduled starting date. We are unable to provide refunds for cancellations made 21 days or less prior to the first day of a workshop. A missed session that is part of an ongoing program is non-refundable and non-transferrable. For our summer institutes refunds are available (less a $50 processing fee) up to 30 days before the scheduled starting date. We are unable to provide refunds for cancellations made 29 days or less prior to the first day of a summer institute.

Please contact us by email as soon as you know you cannot attend a workshop. This will allow us time to contact our waitlist and hopefully fill your spot.