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Time for the obligatory AI panel at #TYCAPNW! That said, they put together three individual presentations that include AI literacy, AI refusal, and AI experimentation. This will be FASCINATING.
October 18, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Time for the A sessions! "Abundant Accessibility: Accommodating Neurodiversity in the Writing Classroom" with Thomas Henry and Marianna Henry.
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October 21, 2023 at 5:01 PM
Because of students mentioning their discomfort about the environmental impact, they created a community agreement of sustainability pledges to attempt to offset that impact. (Haha, one suggestion was only using AI in ENGL 101 and not other classes.)
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October 18, 2025 at 6:09 PM
Tech writing, at its best and most specific, requires understanding of local, community (even if that means company) contexts. LLMs are generic; they can't get that specific *because of the way they function.*
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October 18, 2025 at 6:35 PM
Next up, Susan Shelangoskie brings us, "Hobgoblins to Habits: Rethinking Writing Instruction Through AI Experimentation."
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October 18, 2025 at 6:41 PM
In what folks may think is typical for me, I have attended #TYCAPNW for the first time and somehow ended up on the Regional Executive Committee.
October 21, 2023 at 8:28 PM
Next up, Paige Talbot with "Narrative Glimmers: Centering Joy and Connection in Our Comp Classrooms."
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October 18, 2025 at 9:27 PM
This is such a fantastic thread with so many great resources. Must be an amazing conference! #TYCAPNW
Time for the obligatory AI panel at #TYCAPNW! That said, they put together three individual presentations that include AI literacy, AI refusal, and AI experimentation. This will be FASCINATING.
October 18, 2025 at 6:59 PM
Excited to make it to #TYCAPNW a liiiiiiittle bit late to the first workshop, "Using What Students Know: Engaging Students with Critical Rural Pedagogy" from Sharon Mitchler.
October 20, 2023 at 10:55 PM
And finally, we've got Robin Ebert Mays with "Email and Classroom Interactions: Little Opportunities to Model Effective Communication Strategies."
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October 18, 2025 at 10:29 PM
First up is Anhiti Patnaik with "Protopian Pedagogy and AI Ethics in English Composition." I dig that she named her 101 class, "Song of Myself: Finding Your Voice in the Age of AI." I really like how she's made the exploration expliict up front for her students.
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October 18, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Gloria Ladson Billings is a great pedagogical theorist to read about (and I shall soon): www.wcer.wisc.edu/news/detail/...
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October 18, 2025 at 8:53 PM
And in terms of tech writing, Margoni does emphasize intellectual property and how GenAI doesn't cite the sources it's being trained on.
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October 18, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Next up, "WandaVision and the Trauma-Informed Classroom" with Sydney Elliott!

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October 21, 2023 at 6:03 PM
The opening keynote is from Christie Toth is "Compassionate Dispositions, Compassionate Practices: Community College Student Perspectives on What Makes Someone an Effective Literacy Teacher." #TYCAPNW
October 18, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Citing the article "ChatGPT is Bullshit," she talks about GenAi as a student who's auditing her class, needing coaxing and often messes up. But she also puts it in convo with "Defuturing" by Tony Fry and Kevin Kelly's "What Technology Wants."
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link.springer.com/article/10.1...
ChatGPT is bullshit - Ethics and Information Technology
Recently, there has been considerable interest in large language models: machine learning systems which produce human-like text and dialogue. Applications of these systems have been plagued by persist...
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October 18, 2025 at 6:08 PM
Patnaik invokes Phoenix Perry as she talks about "protopian pedagogy," which I need dwell on further!
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PROTOPIA FUTURES [FRAMEWORK]
Planet Earth, 2021
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October 18, 2025 at 6:12 PM
#TYCAPNW time! Here goes my attempt to do some livetweeting. Handily, the continental breakfast is in the same room as our welcome/keynote from Frankie Condon.

(Adding charcuterie to the continental breakfast? BRILLIANT.)
October 21, 2023 at 3:28 PM
Next up in the C sessions, "Report on MLA-CCCC Task Force on AI and Writing" with Sarah Z Johnson.

I have previously and studiously avoided talking about AI, but what with THE TIMES and all.
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October 21, 2023 at 8:30 PM
Shelangoskie studies literature, technology, and culture, which is important to recognize--19th century discourse developed the idea of tech as objective and infalliable, AH THE INDUSTRIAL AGE EMPIRE, HERE YOU ARE.
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October 18, 2025 at 6:44 PM
And here's were "Reflecting Our Hobgoblins" shows up--GenAI is reflecting back all the crappy writing advice we've been given and been giving for centuries! That we know is crappy!
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October 18, 2025 at 6:53 PM
Margoni invokes Karne Hao's "Empire of AI," which is a great deep dive into the LLMs and how they're being pushed now.
www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/743569...
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Empire of AI by Karen Hao: 9780593657508 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books
An Instant New York Times Bestseller “A bestselling page-turner that has made waves not just in Silicon Valley but around the world . . . With Empire of AI, Hao is fundamentally shaping many people’s...
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October 18, 2025 at 6:27 PM
OMG. Patnaik introduces us to VoiceThread, which allows folks to have asynchronous conversations multimodally! Must investigate!
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voicethread.com
Conversations in the cloud
Transforming media into collaborative spaces with video, voice, and text commenting.
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October 18, 2025 at 6:21 PM
And recognize that setting boundaries isn't at odd with compassion and equity! Students will appreciate the clarity and models that you set forth, if you tell them what your communicative expectations are. #TYCAPNW
October 19, 2025 at 12:59 AM