As a current graduate student and older student, I always forget that Chat GPT is even a thing, as it is not something I would utilize to write a paper. I am in my 7th and 8th of 11 classes for my masters, three classes were what I call technical and about historiography and historical process, and every single paper I have written have been historiographies, not one has been a research paper on the topic I am learning, but an examination of how historians interpretations of history has changed. Personally, it is extremely frustrating as I do not feel that I am fully learning about subject I am learning.
ChatGPT (and similar tools) could just as easily be used to help determine if a text was AI-generated or not.
Writing skills in the United States have been in a steady decline for decades. I had more fights with my kids over their writing issues than anything else in their school years. They both eventually decided the Old Geezer was making some sense, though.
Yeah, I'm in a similar boat, with needing to push the kid to focus on the actual writing part of his assignments. It doesn't help, of course, that his last history assignment was a group project where the end product was a powerpoint, rather than a paper. (9th grade, public school if it matters). Not a lot of opportunities to hone the craft when you are responsible for a dozen or so bullet points across a bunch of slides.
I taught social studies for seven years, primarily to newcomer English language learners Virginia. Finding ways to incorporate writing into the classroom was difficult for many reasons in this context. Here in Virginia we have the high stakes end of course exams that are entirely multiple choice. Teachers feel rushed to get through the “knowledge rich” curriculum and rarely have time to teach critical writing. In my last year in the classroom I actually decided to emphasize sentence writing with my students. (How many student essays are full of poor sentences, right?) Some of the exercises in “The Writing Revolution” by Judith Hochman and and Natalie Wexler were extremely helpful for not only teaching foundational writing, but assessing student understanding as well. If I decide to return to the classroom, I’d use that resource again.
As a current graduate student and older student, I always forget that Chat GPT is even a thing, as it is not something I would utilize to write a paper. I am in my 7th and 8th of 11 classes for my masters, three classes were what I call technical and about historiography and historical process, and every single paper I have written have been historiographies, not one has been a research paper on the topic I am learning, but an examination of how historians interpretations of history has changed. Personally, it is extremely frustrating as I do not feel that I am fully learning about subject I am learning.
ChatGPT (and similar tools) could just as easily be used to help determine if a text was AI-generated or not.
Writing skills in the United States have been in a steady decline for decades. I had more fights with my kids over their writing issues than anything else in their school years. They both eventually decided the Old Geezer was making some sense, though.
Yeah, I'm in a similar boat, with needing to push the kid to focus on the actual writing part of his assignments. It doesn't help, of course, that his last history assignment was a group project where the end product was a powerpoint, rather than a paper. (9th grade, public school if it matters). Not a lot of opportunities to hone the craft when you are responsible for a dozen or so bullet points across a bunch of slides.
I taught social studies for seven years, primarily to newcomer English language learners Virginia. Finding ways to incorporate writing into the classroom was difficult for many reasons in this context. Here in Virginia we have the high stakes end of course exams that are entirely multiple choice. Teachers feel rushed to get through the “knowledge rich” curriculum and rarely have time to teach critical writing. In my last year in the classroom I actually decided to emphasize sentence writing with my students. (How many student essays are full of poor sentences, right?) Some of the exercises in “The Writing Revolution” by Judith Hochman and and Natalie Wexler were extremely helpful for not only teaching foundational writing, but assessing student understanding as well. If I decide to return to the classroom, I’d use that resource again.
So true.