Since their publications in October 2024, “Working Paper 3: Building a Culture for Generative AI Literacy in College Language, Literature, and Writing” and its accompanying “Student Guide on AI Literacy” received many responses from readers. We always appreciate feedback on…
We are probably all familiar with version history in Word or Google Docs and may have heard of students being asked to or choosing to share version history to provide evidence that they wrote something. By “process tracking” we are…
The MLA-CCCC Joint Task Force has spent most of its time and energy for the past (nearly) two years focusing on providing guidance and information to educators, the assumption always being we need to get our own heads around genAI…
In April 2024, the MLA-CCCC Joint Task Force on AI and Writing published Working Paper 2 Generative AI and Policy Development: Guidance from the MLA-CCCC Task Force. This publication coincided nicely with the task force presentation on this paper at…
On March 8 and 9th, the AI and Writing Task Force held the Critical AI Literacy for Reading, Writing, and Languages Workshop at the Modern Language Association headquarters in New York City with key representatives from a variety of humanities professional organizations. Some members joined us via Zoom, making this workshop a productive hybrid event.This meeting was supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities Chair’s Grant.The following AI and Writing Task Force members participated in the workshop:
In response to community needs, the CCCC and MLA‘s AI and Writing Task Force has participated in conversations about the roles of AI and writing when considering the scholarship and creative activities undertaken by faculty. These might include grant applications/proposals,…
2023 was the first full year tech companies like OpenAI and Google flooded higher education with its generative AI tools. In this blog post we review the work AITF has done to assist scholars and teachers in languages, literatures, and…
Should we change the way we assign writing this fall given what we know about current AI text generation capabilities? The task force is cautioning educators about the use of unreliable and biased AI text detection software (see our Working…
Members of the Task Force led an online session, “AI and Writing Programs: Issues for Program Coordinators,” through the Council of Writing Program Administrators in September 2023.
This post is the first in a series responding to feedback we received during and immediately following the July 26 webinar “What AI Means for Teaching.” We were excited to receive nearly 180 comments and questions, and while we can’t…