COMMENT | Love letters and PhD theses in age of ChatGPT

COMMENT | What does it mean to teach students to write in the age of ChatGPT, where a few quick prompts fed into a machine can deliver a bespoke, slickly crafted essay in 30 seconds, and where said technology is only getting more and more convincing with time?

This post deals not so much with the technicalities of how to do so (there’s plenty of good advice out there already), dealing instead with the why?

Does the rise of on-demand Large Language Models mean the death of writing (and the obsolescence of writing instructors), confined to the scrap heap of history together with the steam engine, single-cropping paddy fields and the horse-drawn carriage? This is my take as a tech optimist, language teacher and education researcher.

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