Tag: Purpose

• Teaching Writing with Generative AI

  

  This post is based on a presentation I ran recently at the AATE conference. It takes the writing cycle approach from our book ‘Practical Writing Strategies‘ and applies Generative AI at various stages. One of the most pressing concerns at the recent Australian Association for the Teaching of English (AATE) conference was the implications of…

  Leon Furze

  July 13, 2023

  AI, Digital, Practical Writing Strategies, writing

  AATE conference, AI Assessment Scale, AI ethics, analytical writing, assessment task, audience, audience personas, audience profile, authentic audiences, bias, blogs, book, brainstorming, brainstorming and organizing ideas, burning questions, ChatGPT, ChatGPT (3.5), class time, Claude’s Anthropic, climate crisis, close reading, collaboration, collaborative workshop, context, conventions, Digital, embedding GAI, English teachers, ethical use, example unit, Exploration, fiction, figurative language, final proofing, functional grammar, GAI and the Writing Cycle, GAI technologies, Generative AI, generic feedback, Google’s Bard, ideas, literary critic personas, literary critique, literary journals, literature class critical journals, media, mentor texts, Microsoft’s Bing, nonfiction, peer assessment, peer assessment and workshops, personal voice, poetry slams, polishing, Practical Writing Strategies, presentation, print, product, publication, Purpose, school anthologies, school newsletters, self-assessment, self-directed skills development, sensory details, sentence structure, skills, skills gaps, stages, step by step instructions, student writing, style, teachers, techniques, vivid imagery, vocabulary, voice, writing competitions, Writing Cycle, writing cycle approach, writing instruction, writing process

• Crafting Texts: What Crafting Texts Means for the English Curriculum

  

  This is the final post in a series which goes deeper into the new VCE English and EAL Crafting Texts outcome. Each post includes some discussion of the Area of Study along with practical lesson ideas. Even if you’re not a VCE English teacher, you’ll find this post useful if you use mentor or model…

  Leon Furze

  March 19, 2023

  assessment, close reading, Practical Writing Strategies, Reading Strategies, VCE

  adaptation, analysis, annotation, Area of Study, audience, climate change, close reading, context, crafting texts, feedback, Futures, Harvard Project Zero, inspiration, language techniques, lesson ideas, literary devices, Margaret Atwood, mentor texts, Personal Response, Purpose, reflection, revision, Senior English, style, text types, VCAA, VCE English, voice, Writing Cycle, Writing in the Age of AI, writing strategies

• Crafting Texts: Assessment and Reflection

  

  This is the third post in a series which goes deeper into the new VCE English and EAL Crafting Texts outcome. Each post includes some discussion of the Area of Study along with practical lesson ideas. Even if you’re not a VCE English teacher, you’ll find this post useful if you use mentor or model…

  Leon Furze

  March 16, 2023

  assessment, close reading, Practical Writing Strategies, Reading Strategies, VCE

  adaptation, analysis, annotation, Area of Study, audience, climate change, close reading, context, crafting texts, feedback, Futures, Harvard Project Zero, inspiration, language techniques, lesson ideas, literary devices, Margaret Atwood, mentor texts, Personal Response, Purpose, reflection, revision, Senior English, style, text types, VCAA, VCE English, voice, Writing Cycle, Writing in the Age of AI, writing strategies

• Crafting Texts: Ideas

  

  This is the second post in a series which goes deeper into the new VCE English and EAL Crafting Texts outcome. Each post includes some discussion of the Area of Study along with practical lesson ideas. Even if you’re not a VCE English teacher, you’ll find this post useful if you use mentor or model…

  Leon Furze

  March 8, 2023

  assessment, close reading, Practical Writing Strategies, Reading Strategies, VCE

  adaptation, analysis, annotation, Area of Study, audience, climate change, close reading, context, crafting texts, education, english, feedback, Futures, Harvard Project Zero, inspiration, language techniques, lesson ideas, literary devices, Margaret Atwood, mentor texts, Personal Response, Purpose, reflection, revision, Senior English, style, text types, VCAA, VCE English, voice, writing, Writing Cycle, Writing in the Age of AI, writing strategies

• Crafting Texts: Using Mentor Texts

  

  This is the first post in a series which goes deeper into the new VCE English and EAL Crafting Texts outcome. Each post includes some discussion of the Area of Study along with practical lesson ideas. Even if you’re not a VCE English teacher, you’ll find this post useful if you use mentor or model…

  Leon Furze

  March 2, 2023

  assessment, close reading, Practical Writing Strategies, Reading Strategies, VCE

  adaptation, analysis, annotation, Area of Study, audience, climate change, close reading, context, crafting texts, feedback, Futures, Harvard Project Zero, inspiration, language techniques, lesson ideas, literary devices, Margaret Atwood, mentor texts, Personal Response, Purpose, reflection, revision, Senior English, style, text types, VCAA, VCE English, voice, Writing Cycle, Writing in the Age of AI, writing strategies

• Getting Motivated for the Personal Response

  

  This post refers to the new VCE English and EAL Study Design. However, the ideas about personal writing can be applied anywhere in the English curriculum where students are expected to respond personally to texts. Many schools in Victoria will be preparing for the new Unit 1 Reading and Exploring Texts outcome, the Personal Response.…

  Leon Furze

  January 7, 2023

  AI, curriculum, VCE, writing

  AI, assessment, Australia, Autonomy, ChatGPT, curriculum, EAL Study Design, education, Language model, language processing, Motivation, Natural language processing, Personal Response, Progress, Purpose, Teaching strategies, Text generation, VCE English, Victoria, writing, writing skills