In this sense, it can help student better connect the why’s, how’s, and what’s of a given learning objective following in ways that align with principles for the universal design for learning.

Developing Critical Thinking, Reading, and Composing Skills

In another scenario, a writer trying to explain the complex concept of "Quantum Mechanics" might explore various analogies or metaphors, such as "a game of chance" or "waves in the ocean." With the assistance of generative AI, the writer can develop a more detailed and fleshed-out exposition of each analogy or metaphor, allowing them to gauge which resonates more intuitively and effectively with their intended audience

Generating Ideas and Prototypes

Ex: Evaluate and Revise Claims

Students could use AI to identify “knowledge telling” sentences that over-rely on summarizing facts from sources and suggest ways to revise using Bloom’s Taxonomy to make sentences “knowledge transforming.

This would help students recognize and adapt to various rhetorical situations, fostering a deeper understanding of rhetorical concepts such as the rhetorical situation

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they experience a disconnect between academic literacies and professional communication

“Learn and use key rhetorical concepts through analyzing and composing a variety of texts …”

This being the case, time lost waiting for feedback, which is to say time lost from writing, can be clearly seen as an impediment to student progress in the writing course.

… lack of fluent language generation processes constrains novice writers within short-term working memory capacity, whereas fluent encoding and extensive knowledge allow skilled writers to take advantage of long-term memory resources via long-term working memory

behavior which works to offload cognitive function is of great value to a writer. It should therefore be a central concern of writing scholars.

the future of writing will be shaped by generative AI tools such as ChatGPT. A report from Goldman Sachs researchers has projected that AI will lead to “significant disruption” with around “300 million full time jobs” and argue that “two-thirds of current jobs are exposed to some degree of AI automation while generative AI could substitute up to a quarter of current work.”

The empires of the 21st century don’t need the Dutch East Company, or soldiers, or muskets, orsmallpox. They operate through code, unfair contracts and VC prospectus. Where European powersonce laid claim to land, labour and resources, AI companies now lay claim to language, culture andmemory

The truth is, AI and US ‘fair use’ has yet to be truly tested in a US court. There’s no ruling, noprecedent, no legal foundation

“And if you can’t even function in the digital economy, it’s going to bereally hard for [our languages] to thrive.”

But these models, built by hoovering up large swathes ofthe internet, are also accelerating language loss, in the same way colonization and assimilation policiesdid previously.

the same communities and countries already impoverished byformer colonial empires.

Now imagine getting trapped in that same unhelpful loop whenyou’re trying to get welfare benefits, seek housing, apply for a job, or secure a loan. It’s clearhow the impacts of these systems aren’t evenly felt even if all that garbage is cleaned up.

A now-defunct AI recruiting tool created by Amazon taught itself malecandidates were preferable, after being trained on mostly male résumés. Biased data canhave widespread effects that touch the lives of real people.

Itrelies on a branch of artificial intelligence — statistical machine learning — to recognizepatterns rather than produce new text.

“The training data hasbeen shown to have problematic characteristics resulting in models that encode stereotypicaland derogatory associations along gender, race, ethnicity, and disability status,”

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he company’sResponsible AI initiative, which looked at the social implications of artificial intelligence —including “generative” AI systems

The sentences sound fancy. But just because something sounds fancy doesn’t make it meaningful. Justbecause something sounds obscure doesn’t mean it makes sense.

Does avoiding lists nowadaysmake me sound less precise?

Even if a student will never write so much as an email after she graduates, she needs to be able tofigure out what’s true and what’s not, and how to make sure her thinking is consistent and logical.

AI canspit out 1000 words on the French Revolution more efficiently than a high-school student can, and thatstudent will never have to write anything as an adult, so what’s the point of making them write anessay?

The ideal of college as a place of intellectual growth, where students engage with deep, profoundideas, was gone long before ChatGPT. The combination of high costs and a winner-takes-all economyhad already made it feel transactional, a means to an end.

“They’re using AI because it’s a simplesolution and it’s an easy way for them not to put in time writing essays. And I get it, because I hatedwriting essays when I was in school,”

Wendy provides some background on the class she’s taking before copy-and-pasting her professor’s instructions into the chatbot.

“Massive numbers of students are going to emergefrom university with degrees, and into the workforce, who are essentially illiterate,”

“My grades were amazing,”

Lee thought it absurd that Columbia, which had a partnership with ChatGPT’s parent company,OpenAI, would punish him for innovating with AI.

people need to struggle with a topic to succeed

editor or curator.

can solve some PhD-level problems, but it can be hard to know whether its answers are useful without being an expert yourself.

Our new AIs have been trained on a huge amount of our cultural history, and they are using it to provide us with text and images in response to our queries.

we still default to what we know well.

knowledge of that heritage

learn and demonstrate your understanding.

replicate and amplify biases;

The AI product cannot take responsibility,

Every prompt is wasteful at a time we need to live more sustainably.