The workshop will encourage faculty to think of ways to use multimodal writing assignments.
“ChatGPT 101: Writing Techniques and Multimodal Adaptations for College Faculty” (Title Generated by ChatGPT)
Led by Travis Maynard (Professional Writing & Rhetoric), Li Li (Professional Writing & Rhetoric), Paula Rosinski (WAU Director)
Wed, March 8 (4:00-5:15; coffee and snacks served); Belk 113;
While we are only beginning to feel the effects of AI writing in higher education, viral platforms like ChatGPT present an opportunity for faculty to begin incorporating multimodal writing into their curriculum.
This workshop will encourage faculty to think of ways to use multimodal writing assignments to work around, alongside or even with AI-writing platforms in the classroom. Best practices in writing instruction have always encouraged the production of different kinds of genres, including multimodal ones; we’ll suggest that it’s especially timely to incorporate multimodal writing into your curriculum, not only because AI-text generators are less suited to such writing, but also because of the prevalence of multimodal writing outside of academia.
The workshop will begin with a discussion of the ways faculty currently teach writing, and how AI might be disruptive to their learning outcomes. We’ll then provide some examples of AI-generated writing to demonstrate its current capabilities and limitations, and building on those limitations, suggest teaching strategies and assignments that align with faculty learning outcomes. The workshop will close with a reflection on how faculty might teach writing in a post-AI world.