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Revisioning How We Teach

Revisioning How We Teach Research and Writing in The Age of GenAI

West Virginia University, WVU Potomac State College, WVU Institute of Technology

Facilitators: Nathalie Singh-Corcoran, Jenn Monnin, & Miranda Smith


Schedule

Friday, February 13 From 12:00 - 1:15** (Zoom)
  • Intros & Meaningful Writing Instruction. What does meaningful writing look like for students? We will introduce some foundational concepts. (**Note, this meeting will be 75 min instead of 60 min.)
Friday, February 27 from 12:00 - 1:00 (Zoom)
  • Countering AI-Driven Cognitive Offloading: Process & Info Literacy. We will explore how AI  encourages cognitive offloading and discuss information literacy strategies that promote critical thinking.
Friday, March 13 from 12:00 - 1:00 (Zoom)
  • From Prompt to Publication. GenAI is being integrated into the research and writing lifecycle. In this meeting we will discuss how AI is changing the research and writing process.
Friday, March 27 from 12:00 - 1:00 (Zoom)
  • Meaningful Writing & GenAI. We will discuss GenAI's impact on meaningful writing instruction and explore how instructors have addressed cognitive offloading.
Friday, April 10 from 12:00 - 1:00 (Zoom)
  • Information & AI Literacy Frameworks. With an emphasis on information and AI literacy frameworks, we will build on the Feb 27th meeting and move from exploration to practical applications.  
Friday, April 24 from 12:00 - 1:00 (Zoom)
  • Generative AI and the Research Mentor’s Role. Researchers must balance competing demands to accomplish their goals. We will discuss how AI and research mentorship intersect and considerations for developing successful researchers. 

Description

This Faculty Learning Community (FLC) will encourage participants to explore foundational practices in writing and research instruction and examine those practices in the context of GenAI. Topics will include: how to teach meaningful writing across the disciplines, how to engage students in critical thinking and deep learning using information literacy frameworks, how GenAI is being integrated across the research and writing lifecycle, and how AI and research mentorship intersect. 

Revisioning How we Teach Writing and Research in the Age of AI is suitable for faculty and instructors across the curriculum who teach and mentor undergraduate and graduate students, and we welcome GenAI skeptics, refusers, adopters, and everyone in between.

Each of our meetings will consist of a robust discussion and a reading or two (e.g. an article or book chapter) to anchor our conversations.


Application

Questions? Please reach out to Nathalie Singh-Corcoran.


Facilitator Bios:

Jenn Monnin, MLIS, is the Evidence Synthesis Librarian at WVU Libraries.


Miranda Smith is a Student Success & Instruction Librarian at WVU Libraries. 


Nathalie Singh-Corcoran is the Director of Communication Across the Curriculum in the Eberly College of Arts & Sciences and faculty in the English department.