Learning Tools – AI and the Future of Writing Instruction

Much has been made of plagiarism concerns around the use of ChatGPT in education, and there’s no doubt that generative AI technology will impact the role of writing both in higher education and in society in general. But as Mark Warschauer points out, the use of AI for writing and communication presents an inherent contradiction: Those who can best write with AI will be those who can best write without it, because they’ll need to be able to write good prompts, evaluate the AI output, and edit the resulting text into a usable final product. Warschauer is a professor of education and informatics at the University of California, Irvine, and founder of UCI’s Digital Learning Lab. In this Campus Technology Insider podcast, he talks about the potential of AI for teaching and learning, overcoming faculty skepticism about AI tools, research questions that should be asked about AI in education, and more.

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