
Imagining the future of teaching writing: introducing The Transformers
The Transformers introduce themselves and their mission to imagine how the future of writing and teaching writing may change in the age of AI.
Reports from the front lines by a cadre of educators on how AI is disrupting their craft right now and on how the future of writing may evolve in response. More about us.

The Transformers introduce themselves and their mission to imagine how the future of writing and teaching writing may change in the age of AI.

This provocation suggests that writing has always been a technology for offloading cognition, and asks how the practice might evolve in the age of AI.

In this discussion, the Transformers debate the role of writing and AI in cognitive offloading, for better or worse.

“Friction” has become a lightning rod for AI in education, with some applauding how large language models remove friction for struggling learners and others countering that friction is necessary to learning. This provocation asks how to distinguish helpful from detrimental friction.

The Transformers debate the value of friction in writing and learning in general.