How AI is Changing (and Not Changing) the Way I Teach Writing | by Jeanine Benca | Feb, 2024 | Medium

More than anything else, the arrival of high-tech chatbots has inspired me to reclaim the basics: №2 pencils, loose-leaf paper, and — for some lucky students — vintage scratch-&-sniff stickers W hen, near the end of 2022, something called “ChatGPT” entered the public consciousness with all the grace of a middle-school fart joke, educators responded by declaring an immediate state of emergency. It’s “The End of High School English,” Daniel Herman, faculty associate at Bard College’s Institute for Writing and Thinking, prophesied in an oft-cited piece for The Atlantic. “What winter of 2020 was for COVID-19, winter of 2023 is for ChatGPT,” Jeremy Weissman quipped in the equally apocalyptic “ChatGPT Is A Plague Upon Education.” Old Testament-inspired headlines notwithstanding, the concerns seemed justified. Especially once students started confirming them. Last May, an essay appeared in the Chronicles of Higher Education under the headline, “I’m a Student. You have No Idea How Much We’re U

More than anything else, the arrival of high-tech chatbots has inspired me to reclaim the basics: №2 pencils, loose-leaf paper, and — for some lucky students — vintage scratch-&-sniff stickers W hen, near the end of 2022, something called “ChatGPT” entered the public consciousness with all the grace of a middle-school fart joke, educators responded by declaring an immediate state of emergency. It’s “The End of High School English,” Daniel Herman, faculty associate at Bard College’s Institute for Writing and Thinking, prophesied in an oft-cited piece for The Atlantic. “What winter of 2020 was f