Abstract
This project leads participants through an active process of free-writing and discovery. The process is presented as an example of a first-day activity of a writing class that engages students in the release of self, ideas, thought and helps them find their own authentic voice. The process demonstrates how others’ writings in a variety of genres illicit a response from our own voice of self and that the process of writing connects us and grounds us in humanity. The process will be used as an example of how we can demonstrate to students through first-hand experience and discussion of the experience the value and need for authentic writing grounded in human voice and experience and how we are at a pivotal junction where the value of perfection and convenience threatens to strip us of our access to this human connection. Discussion of the process, students’ reactions to the process and outcomes as a result of the process follow the activity–as well as discussion of other ways to passively resist AI in the classroom. Theorists James Gee, Foucalt, Bandura, and Marzano are used to raise questions and initiate discussion of the intersection of teaching writing, voice, and human connectivity in the age of artificial intelligence.
Presenters
Gina BurkartInstructor; Director of Learning Services, First-Year Studies, Clarke University, Iowa, United States
Details
Presentation Type
Theme
The Arts in Social, Political, and Community Life
KEYWORDS
WRITING, HUMAN CONNECTIVITY, AUTHENTIC VOICE, AI, TEACHING, PROCESS, SELF
