Thoughts about ChatGPT and its implications for teaching/learning writing skills

6 Janvier 2023

No, ChatGPT Is Not The End Of High School English. But Here's The Useful Tool It Offers Teachers.

Folks have been lining up to take Open AI's new ChatbotGPT for a spin (in fact, as I type this, the chatbot is inaccessible due to high demand). Reactions are largely positive and impressed, though

https://www.forbes.com/sites/petergreene/2022/12/11/no-chatgpt-is-not-the-end-of-high-school-english-but-heres-the-useful-tool-it-offers-teachers/

There have been quite a few articles on the recently launched AI tool, ChatGPT which can write essays from scratch, or even improve texts already written.

Its implications for teaching / learning writing skills, as well as jobs like journalism are huge.

It goes way beyond translation tools like DeepL, that many of our students (and we teachers!) make regular use of.

Here is another article from The Atlantic* on the subject. (see below)

Maybe a topic for a future Professional Development webinar?

* Thanks to Hilary Baron for flagging this up!

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