I think we're sad.
OK, so we went second.
Yeah, for sure.
Yeah, it's college writing.
I'm basically making a pitch for the college writing course,
which is, I mean, it's pretty self-serving, but.
So when Chach EPT really kind of exploded on the scene,
there was a lot of fretting and a lot of mashing of teeth
and wailing.
Sorry, I didn't start it up here.
I didn't know where to start.
I mixed my mind, of course.
So when Chach EPT first exploded on the scene,
there was a lot of fretting and gnashing and wailing.
Nashing of teeth and wailing.
So when Chach EPT first exploded on the scene,
there was a lot of fretting and a lot of gnashing of teeth
and wailing about the future of writing instruction,
especially at the college level.
Some even sort of doomsday predictors
saying that this would be the end of the humanities
or the end of writing instruction as we know it.
What we've seen emerge more realistically in that time
is that the college writing classroom
is more important than ever, precisely
because it really is one of the only places, if not the only
place, that students will receive instruction
on how to responsible use generative AI.
It is a perfect place to talk to them
about reading practices that can identify
generative writing documents.
It's a perfect place to talk to them about the nature
of research and information literacy.
It's a perfect place to talk to them
about how to develop an argument from start to finish
and how to communicate that argument
to a variety of different audiences.
Whether you're using the technology or not
at any of these stages, you need to be able to identify
what it's good for, what it's not good for,
and how to use it in the case that you decide to use it.
And as far as I'm concerned, that
is the province of the writing class,
and that is something that we are thinking about doing
and doing right now.
That's super interesting.
Yeah, I can even really think, are there any other places
that you know of that specifically teach how
to use generative AI ethically and responsive?
Not a single one.
I see a lot of, this is one of those things that makes me,
that it's one of those things that
made me question the fattish nature of chat GBT, which
I know it's preferencing, I thought I'd cut that out
or whatever, but a lot of the instruction,
a lot of the instructional content that I see
surrounding generative AI is very, oh, it's the right word,
sorry, scammy, all right, it's very scam.
So yes, a lot of the instructional content
that I see surrounding generative writing is very scammy,
and it's very centered on prompt engineering
as it's called, which is a way of using the technology
to achieve certain goals without really questioning
the ethical implications of any of those goals.
So in terms of that combination, in terms of that,
in terms of the two ingredients that you
need for a responsible use of the tool, which
would be an understanding of the tool
and an understanding of one's own ethical relationship
to that tool, that's really only happening in the college
writing classroom right now, as far as I've seen.
Well, yeah, I think that kind of covers all of my questions.
Is there anything else I know?
That's it, I'm done.
OK.
Oh, good thing, yeah.
Would you look at Jane when you answer, please.
But you mentioned something earlier
that it does produce grammatically correct writing.
Maybe it's interesting to read, but grammatically correct.
So that got me thinking, I'm like,
do you think this could be a tool or an aid
to teach younger students a basic gram?
Yeah.
So chat GPT, when I say that it is capable of producing
grammatically correct sentences, that's
actually a huge asset of the technology
in a variety of different contexts.
That is something that can be very helpful for second language
learners, that are trying to navigate really dense,
complex academic discourse in a foreign language.
And I can see definitely a lot of different applications
at every grade level moving forward
for all different types of language learners
and all different literacy levels.
Awesome.
Perfect.