Labor, Land, Water, and Writing: The Costs of Generative AI in the Writing Classroom
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Join CCCC for a critical, nuanced, and thoughtful exploration of generative AI, its costs, and its effects on college writing instruction and writing research. This three-part Reading Circle will be a collaborative space to exchange knowledge and pedagogical practices.
SESSION 1
Discussion of Empire of AI by Karen Hao
Facilitated by Carmen Kynard & Cindy Tekobbe
Thursday, October 16
5:30–6:30 p.m. ET
Carmen Kynard is Lillian Radford Chair in Rhetoric and Composition at Texas Christian University. Her award-winning research, teaching, and scholarship interrogate anti-colonialism, Black feminist pedagogies, and Black cultures/languages. She traces her research and teaching at “Education, Liberation, and Black Radical Traditions” (http://carmenkynard.org), which has garnered over two million hits.
Cindy Tekobbe is an assistant professor at the University of Illinois Chicago, dual-appointed in Gender and Women’s Studies and Communication. Her research interests include digital identities and communities, decolonial methods, and feminist theories. Her 2024 book, Indigenous Voices in Digital Spaces, was published by the University Press of Colorado.
SESSION 2
Discussion of Enduring Digital Damage by Dustin Edwards
Brief Remarks by Dustin Edwards
Facilitated by Hannah Hopkins & Donnie Johnson Sackey
Wednesday, December 10
4:00–5:00 p.m. ET
SESSION 3
Teaching Writing with Generative AI, Labor, Land, and Water in Mind
Discuss how we might apply Hao and Edwards’ work to the teaching of writing.
Facilitated by Maggie Fernandes, Vyshali Manivannan, and Travis Margoni
Monday, January 12
4:00–5:00 p.m. ET
Register by clicking each date below.
Thursday, October 16 | 5:30 p.m. ET
Wednesday, December 10 | 4:00 p.m. ET
Monday, January 12 | 4:00 p.m. ET
Members are encouraged but not required to attend all three sessions.
Registrants can enter a drawing to receive a copy of Empire of AI: Dreams and Nightmares in Sam Altman’s OpenAI or Enduring Digital Damage: Rhetorical Reckonings for Planetary Survival.
Enter by October 16!
Throughout this series, members will:
- Access research and resources related to generative AI and how it affects labor, land, water, and writing instruction;
- Connect with colleagues who have a shared interest in unpacking issues related to generative AI in writing pedagogy and research;
- Develop pedagogical works in progress with colleagues in the discipline;
- Discuss the ethical implications of generative AI, which is broadly being taken up in writing classrooms and at education institutions across the US and beyond;
- Gain a deeper understanding of the ethical issues of teaching, writing, and doing research with generative AI; and,
- Address approaches to teaching given this new context of ubiquitous generative AI.
Please contact profdev@ncte.org with questions. Registration will close 90 minutes prior to the event’s start time.
