Week 6: Reading & Writing

July 6 - July 12, 2026

Tuesday, July 7 from 4:00-5:30 p.m. PST

Readings

Abdulhai, M., White, I., Wan, Y., Qureshi, I., Leibo, J., Kleiman-Weiner, M., & Jaques, N. (2026). How LLMs distort our written language. arXiv:2603.18161. https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.18161
Janos, N., & Justus, Z. (Hosts). (2026, March 9). Teaching writing in the age of AI (with Stephanie Tran and Tamara Tate) [Audio podcast episode, 36 min]. Melts into Air. https://www.meltsintoair.org/unfixedpodcast/ep-24-teaching-writing-in-the-age-of-ai
Kotran, A. (2025, November 18). Writing is thinking: So should kids write with AI? [Substack post]. https://open.substack.com/pub/alexkotran/p/writing-is-thinking-so-should-kids
Law, J. B. (2026, March 26). College students are writing with AI — but a pilot study finds they're not simply letting it write for them. The Conversation. https://theconversation.com/college-students-are-writing-with-ai-but-a-pilot-study-finds-theyre-not-simply-letting-it-write-for-them-276856
Optional: WestEd. (2026). Friction by design: Writing in a community of writers with AI. https://digitalfluency.wested.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/Writing-with-AI_detailed.pdf

Slides: TBD

Due: Thursday, July 9

Create a short explainer (with accompanying 1-3 sentence statement) that responds to the weekly prompt provided by the instructor.

Prompt: Use AI to give you feedback and/or revise your final project. Create an explainer on best practices for getting useful feedback.

Due: Saturday, July 11

Each week, you will engage with two peers’ explainers and provide constructive, professional feedback on each.

Where to Submit: Canvas will automatically assign you two peer reviews to complete after you have submitted your explainer to the Canvas assignment.

Due: Sunday, July 12

Each week, submit a brief reflective journal entry (approximately 100–300 words) about your AI use during that week’s course activities.

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