[TO BE RESCHEDULED] Designing AI with Neurodivergent Writers: What Student Use Patterns Can Teach Us About Building Better Bots

​About the presentation:

​Recent research on college students' use of generative AI suggests that students are not simply outsourcing writing tasks to AI systems. Instead, many students engage AI as a collaborative thinking partner that supports brainstorming, organization, revision, and reflection. This session shares preliminary findings from an ongoing study examining how neurodivergent student writers use generative AI in writing and learning contexts. Drawing on think-aloud protocols and qualitative analysis, the presentation explores the strategies students employ, the challenges they encounter, and the opportunities these findings create for educators and bot designers. Particular attention will be given to how custom bots, prompt frameworks, and tailored AI interactions might better support diverse cognitive styles while promoting ethical, intentional, and rhetorically informed use of AI.

About the Presenter:

​Jeanne Beatrix Law is Professor of English at Kennesaw State University and coordinator of the graduate certificate in Artificial Intelligence and Writing Technologies. Her teaching and research focus on human-machine writing, first-year composition, rhetorical prompting, public memory, and socially-just AI pedagogy. She is the creator of the Rhetorical Prompting Method and the Ethical Wheel of Prompting, frameworks that help writers remain Human-at-the-Helm through purposeful, sustainable, and ethically checked AI use. Her recent work examines how students use generative AI as a scaffold for invention, revision, reflection, and metacognition rather than as a replacement for writing.

​She has published and presented widely on AI and writing, including work with The Conversation, WAC Clearinghouse, Macmillan’s Bits on Bots, Purdue, Routledge, Sage, Cambridge, and Oxford. Jeanne has authored several Coursera courses for more than 13,000 learners worldwide and is a member of the MLA working group on AI pedagogy. Her social-justice AI projects include the Atlanta Student Movement custom GPT, which supports critical inquiry into civil rights archives, student agency, and civic writing.

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About the series:​
Custom Bots/GPTs is a subgroup of AI in Education, a global group for sharing resources and information related to the impact of artificial intelligence on teaching and learning. Each month the subgroup meets to share strategies, network, and showcase educators doing innovative work with custom bots, GPTs, and apps. For more information and resources, visit edushare.ing/bots.