English Teaching: Practice & Critique: Volume 23 Issue 1

Guest editorial: Artificial intelligence and composing just education futures

Anna Smith, Jennifer Higgs, José Ramón Lizárraga, Vaughn W.M. Watson

Generative AI and composing: an intergenerational conversation among literacy scholars

Grace Enriquez, Victoria Gill, Gerald Campano, Tracey T. Flores, Stephanie Jones, Kevin M. Leander, Lucinda McKnight, Detra Price-Dennis

The purpose of this paper is to provide a transcript of a dialogue among literacy educators and researchers on the impact of generative aritficial intelligence (AI) in the field…

“Just a tool”? Troubling language and power in generative AI writing

Lucinda McKnight, Cara Shipp

The purpose of this paper is to share findings from empirically driven conceptual research into the implications for English teachers of understanding generative AI as a “tool”…

“We’re changing the system with this one”: Black students using critical race algorithmic literacies to subvert and survive AI-mediated racism in school

Tiera Chante Tanksley

This paper aims to center the experiences of three cohorts (n = 40) of Black high school students who participated in a critical race technology course that exposed anti-blackness…

“Weaving tales of resilience”: cyborg composing with AI

Ruth Li

This paper aims to offer an approach to cyborg composing with artificial intelligence (AI). The author posits that the hybridity of the cyborg, which amalgamates human and…

Speculative frictions: writing civic futures after AI

Alexandra Thrall, T. Philip Nichols, Kevin R. Magill

The purpose of this study is to examine how young people imagine civic futures through speculative fiction writing about artificial intelligence (AI) technologies. The authors…

Digital writing with AI platforms: the role of fun with/in generative AI

Amy Stornaiuolo, Jennifer Higgs, Opal Jawale, Rhianne Mae Martin

With the rapid advancement of generative artificial intelligence (AI), it is important to consider how young people are making sense of these tools in their everyday lives…

“I can almost recognize its voice”: AI and its impact on ethical teacher-centaur labor

William Joseph Fassbender

This study builds on previous theoretical work that considered artificial intelligence (AI) and its potential for creating “teacher-centaurs” whose labor could be accelerated…

Writing with, for, and against the algorithm: TikTokers’ relationships with AI as audience, co-author, and censor

Sarah Jerasa, Sarah K. Burriss

Artificial intelligence (AI) has become increasingly important and influential in reading and writing. The influx of social media digital spaces, like TikTok, has also shifted the…