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Session Type: Symposium
This symposium inquires into the ways young people, as knowledgeable and agentive philosophers of technology, counter prevailing dominant discourses about their literacy practices with Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies that situate them as uncritical users (of AI). Convening scholars and educators from literacy studies and learning sciences whose work cuts across theories, methods, and research contexts, this panel will share projects that interrogate how young people are navigating the ethical and critical complexities of AI. The panelists, through five different research projects, illuminate the AI literacies that emerge from the critical, playful, and mutually-constitutive relationships between youth writers and AI, and its implications for equity-oriented, transdisciplinary, and humanizing research, policy, and practice.
Beyond Authenticity: How Youth Authors Negotiate Writerly Voice in the Age of AI - Amy Stornaiuolo, University of Pennsylvania; Rabani Garg, University of Pennsylvania; Clara Abbott, University of Pennsylvania; Mary Elizabeth Talian, University of Pennsylvania; Jennifer Freed, University of Pennsylvania
Skepticism and Boycotting: An Analysis of How Students Resist and Refuse AI in Education - Charles Logan, Northwestern University; Sepehr Vakil, Northwestern University
Critical AI Approaches in the ELA Classroom - Jennifer Higgs, University of California - Davis; Maria Kaimana, envision academy
Youth Digital Writing Camp: Engaging Young Writers as Designers with AI Tools - Joe Dillon, Aurora Public Schools; Kristina M. Stamatis, University of Nebraska Omaha
Overlord, Savior, or Paintbrush? Exploring AI Metaphors Through Reading and Writing With and About AI - Sarah Burriss, Vanderbilt University; Melanie Hundley, Vanderbilt University