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This document explores how writing instruction can integrate artificial intelligence in ways that support—rather than replace—collaborative, student-centered learning.

It emphasizes designing classroom experiences that maintain students’ cognitive ownership, foster productive struggle, support social sense-making, lower activation energy for writing, and remove access barriers, all while using AI as a tool to amplify learning within a thriving community of writers.

Suggested citation: WestEd & National Writing Project. (2025). Friction by Design: Writing in a Community of Writers with AI. https://digitalfluency.wested.org/resources/friction-by-design-writing/