Writing and Friction: A Discussion
The Transformers debate the value of friction in writing and learning in general.
Does Education Really Require the F-Word?
“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.
Writing As Thinking: A Discussion
In this discussion, the Transformers debate the role of writing and AI in cognitive offloading, for better or worse.
Writing As Thinking—By Proxy
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.
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.