What gets mediated matters: Designing AI feedback that makes meaning visible in research writing | Lucy Macnaught What if the AI feedback your students receive on their research writing isn’t aligning with your teaching or offering fluffy stuff that isn’t a priority? Not because the AI is wrong, exactly — but bec...

What if the AI feedback your students receive on their research writing isn’t aligning with your teaching - perhaps even undermining it? Here’s a perspective for thinking about designing connections and continuity. tinyurl.com/2ptnw4cu #Cogniti #AI #GenerativeAI #Education #SFL #AcademicLiteracy

Attention Educators! #TrinityDC #ContinuingEducation session 6 is almost here! Our convenient 8 week courses running Mar 9-May 3 are asynchronous online, and feature subject areas like #ChildrensLiterature, #AcademicLiteracy & more! Register TODAY at trinitydc.edu/continuing-education

University of California Santa Cruz - STEV1

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#STEV1 #AcademicLiteracy and Ethos: #SelfAndSociety
Teaches foundational concepts for intellectual exploration and personal development within an academic community: analysis, #CriticalThinking, #metacognition, engagement with others

Newport News Public Schools unveils 'Elevate 2030' strategic plan The district presented 'Elevate 2030,' a five‑year strategic plan outlining mission, vision, core values and five focus areas: academic literacy; a culture of advancement; workforce readiness; civic and business partnerships; and elevating the district's identity.

Newport News Public Schools is set to transform education with its ambitious "Elevate 2030" strategic plan, aiming for 90% proficiency in reading and math by 2030!

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#VA #CivicPartnerships #CitizenPortal #WorkforceReadiness #AcademicLiteracy #VirginiaPublicSchools

#AcademicLiteracy #Misinformation #Disinformation #Advertising

Using LEGO as a teaching aid for academic writing at university - Dr Fallin This post introduces an approach to teaching academic writing with the use of LEGO. This is a useful tool to help students write & plan.

Revisiting one of my favourite blogs for #AcademicSky: Using #LEGO as a teaching aid for academic writing.

#teaching #learning #HigherEd #LTHEchat #loveLD #AmWriting #AcademicLiteracy #LSP #SeriousPlay #University #Academic #Writing #essay #StudySkills #study

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Over GPTs spitting out waffly vague writing feedback? Our 12min talk for the USyd Cogniti Symposium explores building an agent to steer GPT responses for writing research proposals: www.youtube.com/watch?v=aqPS... #AI #ChatGPT #Learning #AUT #HigherEducation #Education #AcademicLiteracy

Integrated framework from Tabletop EDU that describes the many #learning opportunities #TTRPGs present.

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#Education #AcademicLiteracy #SocioEmotional #AttentionRestoration #Mindset #ProjectiveIdentity #CriticalThinking #Communication #Creativity

#lessig #freeculture presents an interesting premise that could be applied in the context of #academicliteracy
@trewkat
#ethicalcitizens

SLATE project
4x4 #rubrics

#AALL2016
#academicliteracy
#language
#ELP
#communication

SLATE project
3x3 (top down approach minus cause & logic; for tutors)
#rubrics

#AALL2016
#academicliteracy

SLATE project
USyd & UHongKong
Video interviews

#ELP online tutor #remedial

#AALL2016
#academicliteracy

Back from lunch at #AALL2016
SLATE
Scaffolding Literacy in Academic & Tertiary Environments

#academicliteracy

Thanks Jim Donahue & Julian Ingle from @QMUL for preso on @thinkingwriting at #AALL2016 #academicliteracy symposium @UOW 👍🏾

#highquality

Susan Hoadley
Transforming perceptions and practices

Embedding #academicliteracy in curricula 👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾
#AALL2016

Through text creation = "the discipline"

🤓 Conventional AND 🤔✨creative✨

#AALL2016
#academicliteracy
#highered

Let students practice, reflect, plan their own improvement!
#embed #scaffold

#AALL2016
#academicliteracy

Did not address looking at issue of weighting between comm skills & discipline content

#AALL2016
#academicliteracy

Developing #rubrics
Common language
Standards & criteria
"were not widely used"

#AALL2016
#academicliteracy

Assessment - text type - task type - skills
'Do not use exams to assess communication'
#AALL2016
#academicliteracy

Design in flexibility for assessment

#AALL2016
#academicliteracy
#embed

Constructive horizontal alignment
LOs w/verb + measurable outcome

#AALL2016
#academicliteracy
#embed

Susan acknowledges
Students are missing from this framework

#AALL2016
#academicliteracy
#studentsaspartners

Roles of academics in #communicationskills
Design/planning + assessment/feedback
#AALL2016
#academicliteracy

Components of text
Transforming texts
Creating text
#communicationskills

#AALL2016
#academicliteracy

Examples
Discipline content + communication skills

#AALL2016
#academicliteracy

Levels at which #communication outcomes are identified
AQF --> program --> unit
#AALL2016
#academicliteracy

Used discourse theory to demonstrate language unique to discipline

#AALL2016
#academicliteracy

#identity

Assume no knowledge of language when reforming #landt practices of academics

#AALL2016
#academicliteracy

Reforming #landt practices of academics to make #communicationskills explicit

#AALL2016
#academicliteracy