Abstract Educators and researchers are interested in ways that ChatGPT other generative AI tools might move beyond the role of “cheatbot” become part network resources students use for writing. We studied how high school used as a writing support while arguments about topics like mascots. asked: What did prompt to do? And take up ChatGPT's responses those prompts? Flower Hayes' model analyze screencasts interacting with one another they planned, drafted, reviewed their arguments. Our data...

As artificial intelligence (AI) is increasingly integrated into educational technologies, teachers and students must acquire new forms of AI literacy, including an understanding responsible use AI. In this study, we explored tensions in teachers’ students’ opinions about what constitutes learning cheating with Using qualitative methods, asked Pre-K through postsecondary writing (n = 16) a linguistically diverse group 12) to consider examples how might ChatGPT, rank them order much they...

Responding to widespread concern about the potential for artificial intelligence tool ChatGPT enable cheating and discourage students from developing writing skills, authors Sarah W. Beck R. Levine discuss how this latest most powerful digital can help, rather than harm, writers. Drawing on research process effective instruction, they outline ways that teachers teach assess ChatGPT’s output with a critical eye use overcome writers’ block other obstacles writing.

This article employs the concept of intersubjectivity to analyze developments in and discrepancies between students’ understandings criteria for effective writing their teacher. It reports on a study that employed qualitative methods interview classroom observation conjunction with analysis teacher’s feedback explore struggles students learning “genre power” (Lemke, 1988, p. 89) literary essay. The greatest challenges this occurred those whose goals expectations related high-stakes genre...

Genre-based approaches to teaching writing have made important strides in heightening students' awareness of audience and purpose but paid less attention the ways which expectations for written performance school context are embedded certain kinds discipline-based thinking. In this paper we present a study that explored how group high students studying history literature within an interdisciplinary framework experience thinking demands associated with particular kind characteristic both...

Abstract With dialogic writing assessment, teachers can scaffold students’ processes in ways that are flexible and responsive to individual needs. Examples of using this conference‐based method classroom assessment illustrate how practice is dynamic relational rather than static standardized, by allowing vary their support for student writers based on unique These examples also suggest teachers’ epistemologies instruction influence they assessment. The authors conclude with a discussion...

Purpose This study aims to investigate how, through text-based classroom talk, youth collaboratively draw on and remix discourses practices from multiple socially indexed traditions. Design/methodology/approach Drawing data a year-long social design experiment, this uses qualitative coding traces discoursal markers of indexicality. Findings The sustained, remixed evaluated interpretive communities in their navigation across disciplinary fandom construct hybrid community. Originality/value...

The purposes of the study we describe here were (a) to identify challenges that English Language Learner and non–English high school students in an urban public district experience when composing genre exposition, a considered be central advanced academic literacy; (b) relate these characteristics writing they produce. We present descriptive inventory adolescents faced exposition also compare 2 groups experienced both relation each other produced. Finally, our findings implications for...

People’s readiness to construct imaginary worlds has been a topic of great interest researchers in adult cognition and children’s thinking. Research on adults identified the circumstances which prompt people think about what might have been, on content their imagined alternatives reality, on the cognitive mechanisms underlie this activity (Byrne, 1997; Kahneman & Miller, 1986; Kahneman & Tversky, 1982; Roese, Roese Olson, 1995). This research highlighted just how central human reasoning is...

Abstract In Parable of the Sower , Octavia Butler (1993) wrote: “Any Change may bear seeds benefit. Seek them out. Any harm. Beware” (p. 116). this paper, we apply command to a speculative examination consequences text‐based generative AI (GAI) for adolescent writers, framing within socially situated “Writers‐in‐Community” model writing (Graham, 2018), which considers as both an act individual cognition and concentric circles representing nested social, material, cultural contexts writing....

As a topic of concern to educational researchers, writing is enjoying something renaissance, particularly with respect the transition between secondary and post‐secondary levels schooling. In context this renewed interest, article presents framework for understanding composition that integrates cognitive, textual social dimensions. I explore how each these three dimensions contributes our challenges student writers face when composing. also discuss ways in which increasingly focus much...

Beck presents a case study exploring tensions between explicit instruction in an era of standards and reform authentic, inquiry-based teaching learning. She finds that making the literature writing more relevant personal has potential to unlock learning for many so-called struggling readers writers.

Abstract In order to teach writing effectively, teachers need assessment tools that work for diagnostic purposes—tools can help them identify students' specific strengths and challenges with writing, as well generate new ideas instruction. This study explored what 5 high school (3 ELA 2 ESL ) learned about their writers from the performance on a think‐aloud‐protocol ( TAP Assessment, how this information differed they knew students based only previous in class, ‐generated gave We found...

Purpose The purpose of this theoretical essay is to discuss recent scholarship in sociocultural studies literacy – including two books by Peter Smagorinsky (2011) and Luis Moll (2013) articles Gutierrez Engestrom synthesize ideas from into a coherent lens for understanding innovations language education more broadly, when seen as the means through which transformation thought achieved. Design/methodology/approach This uses Vygotskian theory, interpreted Moll, Smagorinsky, Engestrom,...

Purpose This study aims to explore and provide empirical evidence for ways that teachers can simultaneously support students’ literary reading analytic writing through dialogic assessment, an approach conferencing with writers foregrounds process integrates assessment instruction. Design/methodology/approach uses qualitative research methods of three high school teachers’ sessions individual students investigate how these both assessed taught moves as they observed supported the writing. An...

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The authors explain how performing the roles of reader, assessor, and instructor can empower students diverse skill levels to develop their writing.