Learning How to Manage AI in Writing, Grades 9-11
The Bold, the Brave, and the Bots: Handling AI in your writing future
8 class sessions, 1.5 hours per class (12 hours of instruction)
April 2nd - May 21st
Wednesdays, 4:30 - 6:00 p.m. PST
Course Description:
The messages about AI being both a tool and a weapon may seem difficult for writers to navigate. You will explore many of these perspectives as you look at HOW AI can BOTH enhance/replace learning, prepare us/prohibit us from analyzing data and sources, generate/confuse responses to prompts, and empower/inhibit our thinking and expression. You can make effective decisions to manage these complications!
More importantly, you will practice WHAT you can do to be bold and brave as you work with the technologies that might seem more powerful than your yourself. You will learn to use programs that can impact writing such as speech-to-text and Chat platforms for critical thinking, invention, editing, and info-generation. You are a writer who can take charge of AI with an ethical stance, focused on building your writing strategies. You will be able to distinguish the digital spit, snot, sneezes, and diseases that some ‘bots produce, and the digital gems and jewels that make you a future forward writer.
Course Objectives:
Exploring what AI offers and how to use (not be used by) the technology, you will practice with different programs (apps/sites) and will:
Instructor Biography:
Ilona Missakian has taught both high school and college English classes in Southern California, specializing in composition and rhetoric. Missakian infuses all courses with the strategies from the UCI Writing Project that promote students’ skills in reading and writing. Her recent activity in projects like i3 (Invention and Inclusive Innovation)--which embraces technology--and the Puente Project from U.C. Berkeley--which embraces culturally relevant content--have informed her approach to helping students shape their voices and craft effective communication. Preparing students for university-level work is her passion as she coaches students how to use AI successfully and responsibly! She has Master’s degrees in English and in Education, and a Ph.D. degree in Education, specializing in Language, Literacy, and Technology.
The messages about AI being both a tool and a weapon may seem difficult for writers to navigate. You will explore many of these perspectives as you look at HOW AI can BOTH enhance/replace learning, prepare us/prohibit us from analyzing data and sources, generate/confuse responses to prompts, and empower/inhibit our thinking and expression. You can make effective decisions to manage these complications!
More importantly, you will practice WHAT you can do to be bold and brave as you work with the technologies that might seem more powerful than your yourself. You will learn to use programs that can impact writing such as speech-to-text and Chat platforms for critical thinking, invention, editing, and info-generation. You are a writer who can take charge of AI with an ethical stance, focused on building your writing strategies. You will be able to distinguish the digital spit, snot, sneezes, and diseases that some ‘bots produce, and the digital gems and jewels that make you a future forward writer.
Course Objectives:
Exploring what AI offers and how to use (not be used by) the technology, you will practice with different programs (apps/sites) and will:
- Understand some of the academic, economic, professional, and personal reasons that make AI important
- Understand what 2030 and 2050 discussions related to AI are about and why you should care
- Comprehend ethical AI use and the monitoring systems of student work
- Practice accepting and rejecting AI responses to you
- Redirect and restore your control when using AI writing tools
- Observe writing in different situations and scenarios processed by AI, exercising passive and active use of AI
Instructor Biography:
Ilona Missakian has taught both high school and college English classes in Southern California, specializing in composition and rhetoric. Missakian infuses all courses with the strategies from the UCI Writing Project that promote students’ skills in reading and writing. Her recent activity in projects like i3 (Invention and Inclusive Innovation)--which embraces technology--and the Puente Project from U.C. Berkeley--which embraces culturally relevant content--have informed her approach to helping students shape their voices and craft effective communication. Preparing students for university-level work is her passion as she coaches students how to use AI successfully and responsibly! She has Master’s degrees in English and in Education, and a Ph.D. degree in Education, specializing in Language, Literacy, and Technology.