Teaching in Higher Ed

Feedback, Voice, and AI in the Writing Classroom, with Anna Mills

Teaching in Higher Ed

Show Notes

Anna Mills shares Peer and AI Review and Reflection, plus a layered approach to writing feedback on episode 630 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.

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Quotes from the episode

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My sense of the value of feedback has not changed. It’s more important than ever, more meaningful than ever, when we do have that connection through words.

-Anna Mills

I think overall I’ve advocated for more sort of technical support for transparency about what is AI and what is not.

-Anna Mills

Students preferred both the peer and the AI feedback. They did not want one or the other.

-Anna Mills

AI companies should be designing so that their agents don’t go in and say, “I’m a student taking a quiz.”

-Anna Mills

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Resources

Poll Everywhere

AXL 2026 Keynote with Alex Vasquez

Statement on Educational Technologies and AI Agents, Modern Language Association

Peer & AI Review + Reflection (PAIRR), UC Davis Writing Program

Contradictory Feedback Chatbot on PlayLab

Anna Mills on Amazon vs. Perplexity and Distinguishing Agentic AI Bots from Humans (LinkedIn)

Anna Mills on Judge Orders Perplexity to Stop AI Agents (LinkedIn)

More Than Words: How to Think About Writing in the Age of AI by John Warner

Jellyboard

Bad Ideas about AI and Writing: Generative Practices for Teaching, Learning, and Communication

MyEssayFeedback.ai

AI and College Writing: An Orientation

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