Establishing Reflection Questions:
Reflection Questions create a framework for engaging with concerns about AI, responsibility and embodied composition. Rather than aiming to police the use of AI, we hope to build a rhetorical framework where writing’s relational and accountable dimensions may be restored.
Teams One (Starter Team) and Two (Alumni Team) responded to these Reflection Questions in a way that promoted active inquiry within shared digital spaces. We then tracked recurring themes and concerns through analysis that might guide our future writing and teaching.
Responses to the six questions were documented digitally, then provided back to participants for revision. We then analyzed the responses, in one case using AI as a support tool, in other cases focusing on human interpretation.
We invite visitors to this website and readers of our writings about our project (here and elsewhere) to adopt or adapt these questions for additional community-building reflection as a generatively human response to AI’s cultural force.
View Team Responses:
Six Reflection Questions on AI, Authorship, and the Teaching of Writing:
- 1. In what ways do you currently use AI tools in your own writing, and what motivates these choices?
- 2. How do you (hope to/plan to) incorporate AI into your teaching practices (e.g., assignment design, feedback, preparation), and what purposes does it serve for you?
- 3. What concerns or challenges do you associate with students’ use of AI in your current or future courses, and what factors shape these concerns?
- 4. How has the emergence of AI prompted you to rethink your teaching philosophy or learning goals? – (in that vein, and specifically, how to even define our AI usage policies in the classroom?)
- 5. How is AI affecting your approach to assessing student writing? What questions about how to evaluate writing–the student’s, AIs, and hybrids–are you addressing directly in your instruction for/with your students? For example, how does student voice and agency enter into AI-linked pedagogy for you?
- 6. [Response optional: This question was added toward the end of Team 1’s initial composing process. Not all members responded.] What are ways that human-focused, collaborative knowledge making and writing, operating on a smaller interpersonal scale than AI’s LLMs, can still operate in our culture? What approaches and structures of experience would foster such work? What kinds of contributions could it make?