About this Event
The University of Regina, Centre for Teaching and Learning invites you to a special online presentation, "Cyborgs and Centaurs: Ethical AI Integration in Writing Instruction" with Dr. Liza Long.
Date: Wednesday, January 15, 2025
Time: 1:30pm - 2:30pm Saskatchewan Time (CST)
Abstract
There’s no question that generative AI has impacted student writing. What if we moved beyond conversations about plagiarism and started to think about how generative AI could transform students’ writing process in ethical ways? In his book
Co-Intelligence, Wharton professor Ethan Mollick describes cyborgs as people who integrate AI into every part of their workflow and centaurs as people who only use AI for certain tasks. In this presentation, you’ll learn more about how to integrate generative AI tools in writing instruction using the Open Education Resource Cyborgs and Centaurs, a first-year writing textbook that aims to provide students with prompts and examples of AI integration as they explore their personal writing process. You’ll learn how to promote AI literacy in students and teach them to evaluate and use these tools in responsible ways to augment, not replace, their own work. This approach helps students develop critical thinking skills while leveraging AI as a writing tool. (
Note: I acknowledge the use of Claude.ai to review and provide suggestions on my original title and abstract. Claude liked this version).
Presenter bio
Dr. Liza Long is an Associate Professor of English at the College of Western Idaho and serves as one of two AI Fellows and the state General Education Open Education representative for the Idaho State Board of Education. She is the author or co-author of several open education textbooks including Write What Matters, Critical Worlds: A Targeted Approach to Literary Analysis (co-written with ChatGPT 3.5), and Cyborgs and Centaurs: Academic Writing in the Age of Generative Artificial Intelligence. She has presented at Open Ed (2020-2024) on open education, writing instruction, and most recently, incorporating generative AI in the classroom. Liza holds an M.A. in Classics (UCLA), an Ed.D. in Organizational Leadership (Argosy), and is currently a Ph.D. student in English at Idaho State University where her research focuses on teaching first-year composition with generative AI.
