AI as Every Student’s Writing Coach

Mary Ehrenworth, EdD, co-led a think tank on global literacy at Teachers College, Columbia University, for 20 years. She now runs Ehrenworth Literacy Innovations, working nationally and globally to empower teachers and students through critical literacies and collaborative inquiry. She is the co-author of AI-Enhanced Literacy: Practical Steps for Deepening Reading and Writing Instruction.

Ehrenworth's degrees include a BA in history and literature from Harvard and an MA and EdD in curriculum and teaching from Columbia University. Her most recent research fields are AI and literacy and vocabulary acquisition.

Philip Seyfried is a doctoral student in curriculum and teaching at Teachers College, Columbia University, focusing his research on the intersection of digital literacy and artificial intelligence in education. With more than a decade of experience as a middle school language arts and literature teacher, he now supports schools and edtech companies as a literacy and digital literacy consultant. Seyfried is the co-author of AI-Enhanced Literacy: Practical Steps for Deepening Reading and Writing Instruction.