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Teaching Writing in the Age of AI

Strategies For Teachers Of Secondary Students (support Thinking And Writing In Ai-powered Classrooms

Troy Hicks
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Pages
232
Year
2025
Language
English

About

Generative AI affects how students learn to write in more ways than one. Digital literacy experts Troy Hicks and Kristen Hawley Turner explore the ethical and practical challenges of using AI tools in writing lessons. They unpack how AI works and offer strategies that nurture student thinking, creativity, and academic honesty. Learn how to support student agency and authentic writing in an AI-driven world.


Grades 6–12 writing teachers will use this book to:


• Better understand the design and function of various genAI writing tools

• Preserve and enhance student writers' creative agency with targeted genAI assistance

• Define acceptable, academically honest uses of genAI that prepare students for writing

• Examine genAI's ability to inform students' craft of persuasive or argumentative writing

• Explore how genAI can help students develop and create engaging narrative prose


Contents:


Introduction: Being and Becoming Writing Teachers in an Age of Generative AI


Chapter 1: Understanding GenAI, Addressing Concerns, and Exploring the Technology Behind the Tools


Chapter 2: Using Frames for Thinking About GenAI in the Writing Classroom


Chapter 3: Developing Writers' Agency and a Sense of Curiosity With GenAI


Chapter 4: Using GenAI to Examine and Begin Writing Tasks


Chapter 5: Engaging With GenAI for Argument Writing


Chapter 6: Engaging With GenAI for Narrative Writing


Chapter 7: Empowering Writers' Agency in the Age of GenAI


Epilogue


Appendix: Annotated List of GenAI Tools


References


Index

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