Understanding Student Attitudes and Practices: Research-Based Approach to Generative AI Literacy
About the Workshop
This virtual workshop, led by William & Mary Professor Elizabeth Losh, looks at specific ways to apply current research that describes and analyzes how students are using generative AI. It will include new findings from the presenter, whose research team has surveyed over 1,000 undergraduates on her public R1 campus. We will discuss how students are using generative AI throughout the writing process, including for brainstorming and receiving feedback, and their anxieties about its potential effects on their educations and future careers.
This is the first of two free Zoom workshops led by Losh and presented by the Department of English through the Zabel Lectures. The second workshop, on October 1, is entitled "Understanding Faculty Attitudes and Practices: Revising Your Syllabi for the Generative AI Generation." If you have questions about accessibility, please email Terri Sutton at [email protected].
About the Presenter
Elizabeth Losh is the Duane A. and Virginia S. Dittman Professor of American Studies and English with a specialization in New Media Ecologies at William & Mary, where she also directs the Equality Lab. Previously she directed the Culture, Art, and Technology Program at the University of California, San Diego. In the 2021-22 academic year she was a Fulbright U.S. Scholar in Estonia.
She is the author of Virtualpolitik: An Electronic History of Government Media-Making in a Time of War, Scandal, Disaster, Miscommunication, and Mistakes (MIT Press, 2009), The War on Learning: Gaining Ground in the Digital University (MIT Press, 2014), Hashtag (Bloomsbury, 2019), and Selfie Democracy: The New Digital Politics of Disruption and Insurrection (MIT Press, 2022). She is the co-author with Jonathan Alexander of Understanding Rhetoric: A Graphic Guide to Writing (Bedford/St. Martin’s, 2013; second edition, 2017; third edition, 2020). She also edited the collection MOOCs and Their Afterlives: Experiments in Scale and Access in Higher Education (University of Chicago, 2017) and co-edited Bodies of Information: Intersectional Feminism and Digital Humanities (Minnesota, 2018) with Jaqueline Wernimont.
She co-chaired the Modern Language Association Conference on College Composition and Communication Joint Task Force on Writing and AI and is currently co-chairing the MLA Task Force on Generative AI Initiatives. She has also written many frequently cited essays about communities that produce, consume, and circulate digital content, which have appeared in journal articles and edited collections from MIT Press, Cambridge, Routledge, University of Chicago, University of Minnesota, Duke, Oxford, Continuum, University of Alabama, University of Illinois, University of Pittsburgh, Bloomsbury Academic, and many other presses. Much of this body of work concerns the rising influence of AI and simulation technologies, the legitimation of political institutions through digital evidence, representations of war, violence, and disease in social media and games, and online discourse about human rights.