Join A Faculty Workshop
Generative AI For Writing Instructors
A special grant-funded, intensive workshop on AI and its potential uses in writing
and writing-intensive classrooms. With $2,000 stipend.
With Seher Vora, SJSU Writing Center, and Tom Moriarty, Director of Writing Across
the Curriculum
Please join us for a special 8-week, intensive workshop on AI and its possible uses
in the classroom, made possible by a CSU AI Educational Innovations Challenge Award
grant. For the first four weeks of the workshop, participating faculty will play the
role of students in an AI-infused writing classroom, where you will learn how to use
a variety of AI tools – particularly Google's Gemini, which is available to all CSU
students and faculty, and ChatGPT Edu, which is available to all San José State students
and faculty – and use them to complete a short writing assignment.
For the second four weeks of the workshop, we will critically reflect on our experience
and brainstorm ways to incorporate AI tools into our own classrooms. We will revise
course syllabi and develop new and innovative writing assignments that teach students
how to ethically and productively integrate AI into their own writing processes. Two
Writing Center tutors, undergraduate students themselves, will join us in the workshops,
where they will work alongside us to complete the short writing assignment and provide
critical feedback from a student perspective on our ideas for integrating AI into
our own courses.
This workshop will meet weekly for three consecutive weeks, beginning the week of September 15, take a week off the week of October 6, and meet weekly for five consecutive weeks after that, ending the week of November 10.
Participating faculty will receive a $2,000 stipend. Participating faculty will be expected to attend and participate in all workshop meetings; write and revise a short essay using AI tools; revise a syllabus and 2-3 writing assignments from a writing or writing-intensive course; and complete all data collection activities (which includes three short surveys and two short interviews).
