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.

Quotes from the episode

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

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

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