Using GPT to Teach Writing

TL;DR: How are you using AI to give students immediate feedback on their work?

Thinking out-loud:

Today in class, I wanted students writing their own editorials to include their own 'voice'. When asked how you create your own voice, we went through a few items related to modes of discourse (the way we talk to a teacher vs. talk to a friend), and how a persuasive piece of writing could be imbued with thinking that goes beyond just an audience of academics or teachers.

I want to know if it'd worth my time to use ChatGPT to create scaffolded guides for immediate feedback on student voice and style.

I've experimented with the AI Playground feature of OpenAI's site, where after providing an input, students can receive generally accurate feedback on whether they start a paragraph with an arguable claim, are describing evidence to a reasonable degree, and are justifying the opinion created at the outset of the paragraph.

I feel there are ways I can automate student feedback for writing to help differentiate, for example the 'writing with your own voice' portion of an editorial style. Hypothetically I could use the code for specific student feedback I want, imbed it within a host website so they can receive immediate feedback.

Or would it be smarter/easier to instruct students themselves how to use the parameters I use? That way they could just copy/paste the parameters I make for OpenAI, and then they can use that as their own tool for checking their own writing?

I'd love to hear what other teachers are doing in terms of automating feedback for scaffolding using AI. I'm already aware of AI for my personal use in writing comments and developing resources, but I'd also like to integrate it more within the writing process for students as well.

Submitted March 26, 2023 at 11:12PM by hobojoe488 https://ift.tt/ruFXn5p