From Passive to Active: Teaching Students to Critically Engage with AI Feedback
Oct. 7, 2025
Join us on Oct. 7th for our next free webinar where we’ll explore how to teach students to critically engage with AI feedback, addressing a common concern: that AI turns students into passive consumers rather than active thinkers and writers.
In this session, educators will learn strategies to help students question, challenge, and strategically use AI feedback - building essential skills for navigating AI in all areas of life.
Rather than replacing teacher and peer feedback, AI becomes a tool that helps students become more intentional about their writing choices and build confidence in their voice while learning to use AI to stimulate not replace their thinking.
Key topics covered:
The Peer & AI Review + Reflection (PAIRR) feedback prompt: Designed by educators and grounded in core writing pedagogy, this prompt helps students see their work through readers' eyes—identifying strengths to build on and areas for revision.
Scaffolding critical engagement: Seven practical strategies for teaching students to iterate with AI feedback, including how to push back on suggestions, explore uncertainties, and seek contradictory perspectives.
Protecting human connection: Why teacher and peer feedback remain essential for meaningful writing as human communication, and how AI feedback can supplement rather than replacing these interactions.
Hands-on practice: Work with real examples of AI feedback to test out iteration strategies and evaluate the feedback prompt in action.
Participants will gain:
Strategies and adaptable materials for teaching students to question and improve AI feedback rather than accepting it passively
Familiarity with the research-based PAIRR prompt and PAIRR reflection questions that guide students to compare AI feedback to peer feedback
Ideas about how you might incorporate AI feedback to support your pedagogical approach.
Can’t make the time? A recording + resources will be emailed to all registrants.
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Amanda Bickerstaff
Amanda is the Founder and CEO of AI for Education. A former high school science teacher and EdTech executive with over 20 years of experience in the education sector, she has a deep understanding of the challenges and opportunities that AI can offer. She is a frequent consultant, speaker, and writer on the topic of AI in education, leading workshops and professional learning across both K12 and Higher Ed. Amanda is committed to helping schools and teachers maximize their potential through the ethical and equitable adoption of AI.
Anna Mills
Anna Mills has taught writing in California community colleges for 20 years. She is the author of two open educational resource textbooks: AI and College Writing: An Orientation and How Arguments Work: A Guide to Writing and Analyzing Texts in College. Her writing on AI appears in The Chronicle of Higher Education, Inside Higher Ed, Computers and Composition, AIPedagogy.org, and TextGenEd: Continuing Experiments. She serves on the Modern Language Association Task Force on Writing and AI. As a volunteer advisor, she has helped shape the pedagogical approach of MyEssayFeedback.ai, and she currently serves as co-Principal Investigator on the Peer and AI Review & Reflection project funded by the California Education Learning Lab.