One of the biggest worries about generative AI is in terms of how it could impact the development of the ability to write and the learning that is, in essence, formed and evolved through the construction of sentences, paragraphs and the outputs of writing from songs to blogs to academic essays. There’s been some really thoughtful work in this area aleady and Anna Mills has collected some amazing resources that offer a range of perspectives and approaches as well as plenty of food for thought about impacts and issues. This series of videos ‘Generative AI practicals’ is designed to suggest ways in which tools like ChatGPT and Google Bard might be used by academic staff and students in ways other than pumping out text indiscriminately and uncritically! In this video I isolate one element from a marking rubric and using two genAI tools ask them to assess a paragraph and then suggest alternatives across grade bands.

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Prompt & Outputs from ChatGPT and Google Bard