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

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 (polleverywhere.com)

• AXL 2026 Keynote with Alex Vasquez (teachinginhighered.com/2026/05/26/axl2026-keyn…)

• Statement on Educational Technologies and AI Agents, Modern Language Association (mla.org/Resources/Advocacy/Executive-Council-A…)

• Peer & AI Review + Reflection (PAIRR), UC Davis Writing Program (writing.ucdavis.edu/pairr)

• Contradictory Feedback Chatbot on PlayLab (playlab.ai/project/cmnceb4t80rn0jb0wq5oz83lg)

• Anna Mills on Amazon vs. Perplexity and Distinguishing Agentic AI Bots from Humans (LinkedIn) (linkedin.com/posts/anna-mills-oer_now-that-ama…)

• Anna Mills on Judge Orders Perplexity to Stop AI Agents (LinkedIn) (linkedin.com/posts/anna-mills-oer_judge-orders…)

• More Than Words: How to Think About Writing in the Age of AI by John Warner (hachettebookgroup.com/titles/john-warner/more-…)

• Jellyboard (jellyboard.ca)

• Bad Ideas about AI and Writing: Generative Practices for Teaching, Learning, and Communication (wacclearinghouse.org/books/perspectives/bad)

• MyEssayFeedback.ai (myessayfeedback.ai)

• AI and College Writing: An Orientation (aiorientaton.org)

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