<story><title>My class required AI</title><url>https://oneusefulthing.substack.com/p/my-class-required-ai-heres-what-ive</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>coffeefirst</author><text>In college I used to help friends fix their essays. We&amp;#x27;d go through line by line and examine if the actual words on the page were clear and said what they intended. All of them wound up getting As on the second draft and every essay thereafter. It was just about learning how to look at the problem.&lt;p&gt;We live in a world of emails and slacks and documents and text messaging. Literacy matters. Writing clearly matters.&lt;p&gt;What I would actually do with this is not use GPT to write your essay, but have GPT write a flawed essay and ask the students to rewrite it. Fix the logical fallacies, tighten the language, check the facts, etc.</text></comment>
<story><title>My class required AI</title><url>https://oneusefulthing.substack.com/p/my-class-required-ai-heres-what-ive</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>isaacfrond</author><text>Excellent article.&lt;p&gt;I was helping my son with his homework. He had to write an essay about why the gender of the protagonist might be female (although this is never mentioned in the short story). Fortunately for him, ChatGPT knew the story and was happy to write an essay with arguments. [Btw, according to him pretty much everyone in class routinely has the AI do their essays]&lt;p&gt;He was about to send this essay in. But as we were admiring the prose of the computer (which is much better than either of can), we found out that some of the arguments actually didn&amp;#x27;t make much sense. So we went to through a rewrite exercise like in the article, improving the essay and our understanding of the issues.&lt;p&gt;Next time I see her, I&amp;#x27;ll urge the teacher to adopt a similar approach as in the article.</text></comment>