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Critical AI Literacy as a Necessary Foundation in the Teaching of Writing: Pedagogy, Assessment, and Institutional Integration (103186)
Session Chair: Gloria Tam
Wednesday, 25 March 2026 16:45
Session: Session 5
Room: Room 603 (6F)
Presentation Type: Oral Presentation
This article aims to provide conceptual means by which teachers of writing in secondary and post-secondary educational contexts can critically interrogate and responsibly integrate Generative AI (GenAI) tools into their work. The challenge is to do so in ways that (1) facilitate rather than undermine the learning of core transferable writing skills that are potentially threatened by the offloading of writing’s historically social-cognitive processes to Large Language Models (LLMs); and (2) embed as routine pedagogical practice critical evaluations of specific LLM tools and the varied implications of their uses, not the least of which include the perpetuation of social, cultural, and linguistic biases, as well as documented harms to the environment, labor conditions, data privacy, and intellectual property rights. The article does not report on an empirical study but instead takes the form of a scholarly essay, one intentionally broad in scope, written for those invested in writing pedagogies across a wide spectrum of levels and disciplinary formations. The essay draws primarily on scholarship by experts in constellated fields of writing pedagogy theory and research. The author provides a summative overview of foundational skills integral to process-based writing instruction—namely cognition, creativity, and rhetorical adaptability—as well as the challenges to them posed by GenAI. In the context of that overview, the author then develops a conceptual framework for critically evaluating and responsibly integrating LLMs into the teaching of writing, a framework designed to maintain those foundational skills while fostering a critical AI literacy.
Authors:
P. Darin Payne, University of Hawaii, United States
About the Presenter(s)
Dr P. Darin Payne is a University Professor/Principal Lecturer at University of Hawaii in United States
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