Education Gadfly Show #851: The case for teaching writing in the age of ChatGPT, with Checker Finn

<p>On this week’s Education Gadfly Show podcast, David Griffith talks with <a href='https://fordhaminstitute.org/about/fordham-staff/chester-e-finn-jr'>Checker Finn</a> about why we should still teach writing in the age of ChatGPT, a new AI-powered bot that can mimic human prose. Then, on the Research Minute, Amber tells us about the challenges of implementing academic Covid recovery interventions.<br/><br/><b>Recommended content:</b></p><ul><li><a href='https://openai.com/blog/chatgpt/'>ChatGPT</a>, the writing bot discussed in this episode</li><li>“Why learn to write?” —<a href='https://fordhaminstitute.org/national/commentary/why-learn-write'>Checker Finn</a></li><li>“Artificial intelligence is not the end of high-school English” —<a href='https://fordhaminstitute.org/national/commentary/artificial-intelligence-not-end-high-school-english'>Robert Pondiscio</a></li><li> “Did a fourth grader write this? or the new chatbot?” —<a href='https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2022/12/26/upshot/chatgpt-child-essays.html'>New York Times</a></li><li>The study that Amber reviewed on the Research Minute: Maria V. Carbonari et al., <a href='https://caldercenter.org/publications/challenges-implementing-academic-covid-recovery-interventions-evidence-road-recovery'><em>The Challenges of Implementing Academic COVID Recovery Interventions: Evidence from the Road to Recovery Project</em></a>, CALDER Working Paper (December 2022)</li><li><br/></li></ul><p><b>Feedback Welcome:</b></p><p>Have ideas for improving our podcast? Send them to our producer Nathaniel Grossman at <a href='mailto:ngrossman@fordhaminstitute.org'>ngrossman@fordhaminstitute.org</a>.</p>