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TTT on College Admissions Essays and AI - August 2023 - July 2024

What happens to the college admissions essay in the age of AI?
 
Students can ask AI to write these essays for them, and they can be evaluated with AI, of course. Before tripping to far into this dystopia, let's consider together how we might show students how to use AI to find their topics, develop strong introductions, personal anecdotes, convincing "so what" sections, and more as they compose, revise, and complete their college admission essays.
 
Join the TTT conversation at Kumospace.com this Wednesday evening at 9E/8C/7M/6P. We are designing an AI MAKE CYCLE for the college admissions essay following the workshops delineated in Jessica Singer Early and Meredith DeCosta's essay Demystifying the College Admission Essay Genre (Chapter 4 of Real World Writing for Secondary Students).
 
This Wednesday on TTT, we are going to work with a college admissions essay from a few years ago that Chris Sloan has offered for our consideration. We will use some of the AI Mojo templates on Youth Voices that we already have for giving a writer feedback on content as well as revision and editing suggestions.
 
We are intending to do a very hands-on experiment with AI tools this Wednesday evening, then open up the conversation to consider what other supports and AI tools we might develop to support students to write their college admissions essays.
 
We will hold a seat for you at Kumospace.com this Wednesday evening at 9E/8C/7M/6P!

 

 
We have saved you a seat in our AI Makerspace. Grab a stool on Wednesday September 6th at 9E/8C/7M/6P at https://kumospace.com/youthvoices.
 
We are creating AI mentors to support the teaching and learning of the key elements of the College Admission Essay as identified in chapter 4 of Real World Writing for Secondary Students Teachers College Press and National Writing Project, 2012.

Chapter 4: Demystifying the College Admission Essay Genre Author: Jessica Singer Early and Meredith DeCosta

Summary: This chapter from Jessica Singer Early and Meredith DeCosta’s Real World Writing for Secondary Students presents a writing workshop for ethnically and linguistically diverse high school students in which students receive instruction on specific genre features of the college admission essay. The chapter offers an overview of the college admission essay genre, key components of the workshop, samples of student writing, and professional resources for teaching the college admission essay. Equally useful as the focus of a professional development session or as the basis for a youth writing program, the chapter is especially relevant for teachers who work with linguistically divers youth as a way of providing access to “gate-opening writing tasks.” '
 
Join us on TTT's AI Makerspace. We'll see you on Wednesday September 6th at 9E/8C/7M/6P at https://kumospace.com/youthvoices.
 
 

 
 
Join us in a conversation about the college admissions essay.  We'll be asking when, how, and why we might make AI Writing Partners available to support students in the process of writing these "power genres." Kylie Frontczak, a graduate student of Jess Early's will be joining us. Kylie is in the middle of teaching her second, of two, weeks with students in a Young Adult Writing Project focused on the college admissions essay.
 
We will be re-thinking and revising AI Writing Partners for the College Admissions Essay in Kumospace.com/youthvoices on Wednesday, June 26th at 8E/7C/6M/5P. All invited!
 
Kylie is experimenting with using a set of 13 Writing Partners that we developed recently with Dr. Jessica Early based on her research and workshop designs that she published about a dozen years ago in "Demystifying the College Admission Essay Genre," Chapter 4 of Real World Writing for Secondary Students.
 
Join us as we hear feedback on these Writing Partners from Kylie,who has been using them with students in a summer camp at Arizona State University these last couple of weeks of June.
 
Writing Partners available to students for College Admissions Essays.
 
Brainstorming
Getting Started Simulator
 
Composing
Lead Tutor
Description Tutor
So What? Tutor
Conclusion Tutor
 
Revising
Say Back Teammate
Diving Deeper Teemmate
Pointing Teammate
"Dear Reader" Letter Teammate
Imagined Audience Simulator
Paragraph Decoder Tool
Outlining Tool
 
Editing
Spelling, Grammar, and Paragraphing Tool
 
We will be re-thinking and revising AI Writing Partners for the College Admissions Essay in Kumospace.com/youthvoices on Wednesday, June 26th at 8E/7C/6M/5P. All invited!




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