Allison and I started Moving Writers, the blog, nearly 12 years ago on the Monday we returned to school after attending NCTE. We named it as we walked through the courtyard to our classrooms. “It’s not about making better writing,” Allison said. “It’s about growing better writers.” We began with an aggressive posting schedule of […]
Tag: AI
AI in the Classroom Can Be Like My Mother’s Microwave
I humbly suggest an alternative analogy for generative AI, more fitting for the classroom: the microwave.
And to help me elaborate on this analogy, I want you to meet my mom.
When AI Wrote the Essay: Four Strategies for Addressing AI Cheating with Students
What can we say to students when they turn in writing that was clearly manufactured by AI?
AI Meets AP: A Collaboration Between Top Writers and ChatGPT
Like most English teachers, my AP Literature and Composition students have a special kind of scorn for AI writing. And it makes sense: They are some of the most skilled writers in the school, and likely they feel threatened by technology that claims to replicate the skill that helped propel them to academic success, often […]
Hacking Teaching with ChatGPT
Every English teacher wants to talk about ChatGPT right now. When I thought about how I wanted to tackle this at Moving Writers, this first person who came to mind is today’s guest writer, my colleague, Philip Tickle. Philip wows and amuses me every day with his ability to use ChatGPT to make his teaching […]
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