Panel Discussion: Exploratory Conversations Around Writing With or Without AI

Generative AI has surprised the world with its facility for writing and conversation. The ease with which one can now prompt AI to write and converse in real language has led educators of writing, languages, arts and communications to rapidly reconsider or recommit to their pedagogies, course activities and disciplinary justifications. This session will use short, lightning-round presentations and a discussion panel to explore how campus stakeholders in the humanities are integrating or foregoing generative AI in their instructional practices.  

Moderator: Robert Baird, Center for Innovation in Teaching and Learning

Lighting Rounds:

Andrew Moss, Senior Lecturer Department of English 

Using Human-Centered Design (HCD) in the Professional Writing Classroom. Business and Technical Writing 250 students followed an HCD process to research, analyze and report on an exigent campus problem. The process utilized empathy, primary research, data analysis, and stakeholder research. The project is part of a collaboration with Siebel Center for Design.

Dan Han, Technology Services

Useful and Iterative Prompt Engineering. This brief presentation demonstrates how prompt engineering with LLMs can align with and support writing process pedagogy, providing an ideal, iterative platform for the composition classroom. 

Dani Nyikos, Lecturer, Department of English 

AI Writing Can’t Love Me Back. As an artist and a love of reading in many genres and forms, I feel despair and loathing at the thought of AI changing what I read. I fear its undisclosed use in texts I want to love; in this quick talk I discuss why.

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