Anna Mills
English Instructor, College of Marin
About
Anna Mills has taught writing in California community colleges for 20 years and is author of the widely used open educational resource textbook 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 and as faculty for the American Association of Colleges and Universities Institute on AI, Pedagogy, and the Curriculum. As a volunteer advisor, she has shaped the pedagogical approach of MyEssayFeedback.ai, and she currently serves as prompting and communications lead for the Peer and AI Review & Reflection project funded by the California Education Learning Lab.
Summit Participation
What Can We Do About (and With) AI? Education as a Case Study
When generative AI first emerged, educators responded by forming collaborative networks, sharing resources, and creating spaces for critical discussion. This talk explores how these communities have shaped AI implementation through collective learning and peer support, recognizing that the…
AI That Takes Action: Why Educators Should Try Agentic AI and How to Start Without Jumping off a Privacy and Security Cliff
Today’s AI doesn’t just chat; it can browse and carry out multi-step tasks across apps. Working with agentic AI helps educators build the firsthand understanding we need to guide our students and institutions in this era. In this entry-level session, we’ll look at low-risk, useful…