Professor Laurie Miller

Any tool to help students (and teachers) understand their stance on AI use is a good tool.

In this LinkedIn post (http://bit.ly/3HYqIry), Anju Gupta shares two recent texts that introduce you to tools for this:
(1) 📄 Banville et al. (2024) (qual. survey, n=52, U.S. undergrads) present 4 student personas to prompt reflection and dialogue:https://wac.colostate.edu/docs/proceedings/cw2024/banville-etal.pdf
(2) 📊 Helm & Hesse (2025) (qual and quant survey, n=502, European student-teachers). Cluster analysis reveals 4 profiles: https://www.jowr.org/jowr/article/view/1542/998

To keep yourself from "fanboying" about integrating AI into your writing instruction, read this empirical study about essay writers using AI, search engine results, or only their own cognition, without digital assistance. https://www.brainonllm.com/

Your Brain on ChatGPT: Accumulation of Cognitive Debt when Using an AI Assistant for Essay Writing Task Your Brain on ChatGPT: Accumulation of Cognitive Debt when Using an AI Assistant for Essay Writing Task

If you are wonder about how to incorporate AI into your pedagogy, you might want to check out this website, sponsored by the CCCC/MLA Joint Task Force on AI and Writing, that presents AI teaching experiments. https://exploringaipedagogy.hcommons.org/

This summer I'm thinking a lot about how to enhance my students' critical thinking (CT) in engaging and effective ways. This review of CT assessments has been fruitful in this thinking, but it also shows me how much work there is to be done in CT education.

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10890380/pdf/jintelligence-12-00016.pdf

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How Climate Change Affects Our Mental Health, and What We Can Do About It Evidence is emerging that climate change can affect our mental health, putting further pressure on a behavioral health services sector already in crisis.

Writers can count themselves as developers, and I'm pretty sure my fellow rhetoricians will agree with this coder: developing content has a significant human element—an individual human element—that cannot be emulated by AI until it can "read the room." And even then, it won't be able to replace each person's unique perspective.

To keep ourselves "AI-proof," now is the time for rhetoricians to help humans get better at recognizing and communicating our individual, unique perspectives.


https://www.theregister.com/2025/05/21/opinion_column_ai_cant_replace_developers/

I was more than delighted to help Paola and her classmates. Working with international students like her who are motivated and dedicated to learning always makes me thankful that my job is focused on developing people's potential.

The bonus is being able to watch them soar into successful careers and lives.

#intomason #careersuccess #internationalstudents #dreamjob | INTO George Mason University Meet Paola from Colombia 🇨🇴 From finding her dream job to building lifelong friendships, Paola’s journey at Mason has been nothing short of inspiring. Through the pathway program, she transitioned smoothly into her master’s program, landed a full-time offer from Allan Myers Inc....

is life changing.

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All the buzz surrounding generative AI pushes people to decide if and how they will use it in their work and personal lives. Here's a response from Lester Mapp at ZDNET that I agree with. AI

AI won't take your job, but this definitely will Here's what's quietly reshaping the job market, and it's happening faster than you think.

Given the fact that AI literacy is #1 on this top ten list but that, in my estimation, at least seven others require human interaction, I'd say we human teachers don't need to panic about being replaced by AI, but it also signals that we need to learn how to work with AI as it evolves so that we can help our student use it ethically and effectively.

(After all, our students use it, with or without our consent -- see https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn%3Ali%3Aactivity%3A7307779912050819072/)

My current curiosity project asks the question "How can writing instruction help students use AI writing tools ethically and effectively while developing critical thinking skills?"

Being at a university like Mason that is already working to integrate AI in instruction will add some local, contextualized hands-on models from other disciplines as I go about looking for answers to my question.

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Good advice for fact-checking

10 Questions for Fact-Checking Social Media and the News Nowadays, everyone needs to learn how to do their own fact-checking and content moderation. Just because something is repeated thousands of times does not mean it is true.