![]() ![]() Several school districts have banned ChatGPT. They’re more invested in arguing their points because they’ve thought of them themselves. I’ve seen it happen in their discussions and with stages of the writing process, from brainstorming to drafts to silly stories to final essays. They’re not afraid to make mistakes, to shape and reshape their ideas. ![]() You can sense the aliveness in the classroom when students use their imagination and generate their own ideas. Isn’t originality the key to innovation, and isn’t innovation the engine for the 21st century economy, the world our students are preparing to enter? ![]() Of course, not all of our students aspire to be writers, but they all deserve the opportunity to be thinkers - to believe in themselves and build confidence, to observe and analyze their world. Writing requires fits and starts and a willingness to fail, to start again, to refine a thought and back it up. Thinking critically takes more time than posting on Snapchat or watching a TikTok video, yet many of my students treat their schoolwork as though it’s another app to scroll through.Īll kinds of writing - all kinds of thinking - begin in the imagination. As a result, they risk feeling unprepared, anxious, and insecure inside and outside of school. Using ChatGPT in school leads students to believe they don’t need to think of their own ideas. Last spring, when another student used ChatGPT to write her paper, she looked bewildered when I said “writing process.” They’ve come to expect the immediacy of online experience in the classroom. Their increased impatience is more than just typical teenage behavior. Just last year, for instance, my students hurried through a class conversation about “Raisin in the Sun.” They dispatched in five minutes what, five years ago, took 30. Even before ChatGPT’s arrival in November 2022, students were already speeding through school work, the better to get back to their social media feeds. ![]()
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