Kristen Hawley Turner

Kristen Hawley Turner is a professor of education and literacy whose work focuses on the intersections of technology and writing for adolescents. She serves as a professor and chair of education at Drew University and directs DrewTEACH, where she has been researching how technology impacts writing for more than two decades. Earlier in her career, she was an associate professor in the Fordham University Graduate School of Education, working with preservice and inservice teachers to develop literacy skills across the curriculum and to incorporate technology in meaningful ways. A former high school English and social studies teacher, she is also a teacher consultant for the National Writing Project and has directed the Fordham Digital Literacies Collaborative.

Turner is co-author, with Troy Hicks, of Teaching Writing in the Age of AI: Strategies for Teachers of Secondary Students, which offers practical approaches for using generative AI tools to support authentic, ethical writing in grades 6–12. With Hicks, she also co-authored Argument in the Real World: Teaching Adolescents to Read and Write Digital Texts. She edited The Ethics of Digital Literacy: Developing Knowledge and Skills Across Grade Levels, a volume that examines what it means to be ethical in digital spaces. Her scholarship includes influential articles such as “Digitalk: A New Literacy for a Digital Generation” and “Demystifying Digitalk,” which explore digital language