Local Instructors Meet for 12th Annual Lake Superior Summit on Teaching of Writing

DULUTH, Minn.– As the world continues evolving, so do the methods teachers use in the classrooms.

For 12 years now The Lake Superior Summit on Teaching of Writing and English as Second Language has been gathering teachers from 6 different institutions for this collaborative event.

The topics covered included teaching and learning with disabilities, communication, and workshops.

Every year they have a keynote topic, and this year’s theme is generative A.I.

“And they started saying, ‘why don’t we do this up here?’ Why do we have to drive three hours south to have these conversations. The next year we started the conference at Lake Superior College. We had I think 60 attendees all over the region. And we just decided we were going to take turns hosting,” said Avesa Rockwell, Senior Instructor and Writing Program Administrator at UMD.

“I’m going to be bringing up AMAs, those are ideas that A.I. can be moral. There’s a debate on it about whether or not you’re actually, A.I. isn’t human. So can you program it or teach it morality. And if so, who is programming it?” said Carla Elaine-Johnson, Faculty St. Paul College, & Keynote Speaker.

The speaker also talked about how A.I. can be used more as a brainstorming outlet, instead of a writer.

In addition, she spoke about alternative tools to help combat the misuse of it.