Time-Saving at What Cost? Exploring ELA Teachers’ Adoption and Training of AI Use in Writing Classrooms

• In Event: Research in Progress Roundtable Session 3
  In Invited Roundtable: Understanding the Use of Artificial Intelligence in Education: Writing Instruction, Language Learning, Civic Education, Skills Assessment and Creativity (Table 12)

Abstract

This study aims to explore the ways in which P12 teachers and teacher educators have been trained to use and are using generative artificial intelligence (GAI) in writing instruction in the context of their classroom spaces. It seeks to gain insights to better understand how teachers conceptualize and implement AI use in their English language arts (ELA) classrooms and what considerations they make as they use (or do not use) GAI. While the amount of research being conducted on the topic of AI and writing has increased in the past two years (Marzuki, et al., 2023), there is scant research into the professional development being provided in using GAI in writing, especially when pertaining to rural schools.

Author

• Brianne Michelle Johnson, University of Oklahoma