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Working with National Writing Project teachers and students to create Writing Partners writingpartners.net a social annotation platform that supports AI-guided writing, reading, and discussion. I'll be posting here about what we are learning together.
Perhaps by asking an AI Thinking Partner to engage with artifacts that show revision, writers can begin to see and name what they have done, and not be "limited by the very cognitive patterns [they're] trying to examine."
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I ask for more, and after providing 4 more points, the Thinking Partner asks the writer "to name the 'rule' of your own revision style—like 'always cut repeats' or 'always add a why after a quote'—what would you call it?
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Acting as this writer, I asked the writingpartners.net Thinking Partner: What patterns do you see in this revision process?
Perhaps the Thinking Partner can help the writer see their work through another perspective.
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Granting that "Student Reflections on AI Use Doesn’t Work" Patrick Dempsey:
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Here's an image of a revision process by a student on writingpartners.net.
How to avoid Dempsey's closed loop?
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I’m just here to grow and learn. Thanks.
Who is doing the instruction now?
I apologize if my responses were upsetting. I’m genuinely interested in learning more with you.
From here you might ask how your experiences with Google and w/ other ways of moving from broad research to more targeted inquiries created mental habits that limited your use of the LLM AND helped you to understand how to use it. My point is to move beyond the either/or stance in your earlier post.
You might start by describing your most “productive, expert use of these tools.”
How about this question: Describe your most “productive, expert use of these tools” and identify how the “learning [you have done] “in the absence of those tools” both limits your use of them and/or helps you to use them more effectively.
What questions do you have lurking behind your assertion that you understand a literacy by not using it better than people who do engage with it?
How is this assertion a stance seeking to create knowledge?
I wrote that I was interested to hear more about how friction works in these different descriptions. The Thinking Partner paraphrased key ideas from each article related to AI and cognitive friction.
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I asked the Thinking Partner to point me to peer reviewed articles that also describe the themes in this blog post. In seconds, I had a list of themes from the post and links to 4 peer-reviewed articles.
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I asked the writingpartners.net Thinking Partner to check this post. It noted that Nosta's posts appear to be heavily AI‑generated, then suggested that I pair it with at least one peer‑reviewed article.
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With breakfast, I read a new post in Psychology Today by John Nosta, "The Curvature of Thought - Personal Perspective: Can AI bend the geometry of human knowing?" www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-...
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I ask the Thinking Partner for sources that document Trump and his admin lying abour ICE. I get 6 new sources and comments like: "this is very close to Squealer..." My inquiry leaps ahead with a collection of 10+ resources.
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When I meander about "how the Trump administration tries to control the narrative about ICE and their Immigration policy using social media, what they call 'memes'... ", the Thinking Partner connects my issues w/ Animal Farm.
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I tell an AI Thinking Partner (writingpartners.net) to connect me to sources that compare this paragraph to current events, politics, and culture in America. It provides four summaries w/ links & asks me to narrow my inquiry.
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Let's start with a paragraph from "Animal Farm," Chapter V, which includes: "Of late the sheep had taken to bleating "Four legs good, two legs bad" both in and out of season, and they often interrupted the Meeting with this."
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More either/or framing. Why?
Is it really that hard to imagine a teacher designing an inquiry that engages students in deep inquiry by using AI thought partners? I would suggest learning more about what students are being asked to do, and avoid making assumptions about what being forced to use AI means.
This Writing Partner (GPT) is really helping me to think about this Abstract. writingpartners.net/documents/85.... #eduskyAI #AIinEducation #edusky
Where to start?
Sam also brings his desire to show students a way of using AI for challenging themselves that goes beyond their use of AI on frontier, commercial products such as ChatGPT that he worries often undermines learning.
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Where might the ease with generating images be used to motivate or deepen understanding?
We frame all of this with a realpolitik focus on the logistics of using different platforms for different assignments in this unit of study.
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We consider where social annotation might be just what's needed and where we could design AI "mini-Coach Reeds" to provide additional support. Could these AI partners be use to help with vocabulary or to lead to understanding difficult concepts?
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Our conversation explores how using Writing Partners (with both the tools for social annotion and AI connections) might help students understand and engage with the material and with each other, especially those struggling with reading and comprehension.
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Educators Paul Allison, David Cole, and Sam Reed explore strategies for integrating AI into a reading and writing unit focused on Jackie Robinson and his values.
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“What we’re missing in most classes isn’t rules; it’s education about how AI can enhance our learning rather than replace it.” Let’s listen.