Episode Details

On this week’s Education Gadfly Show podcast, David Griffith talks with Checker Finn 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.

Recommended content:

• ChatGPT, the writing bot discussed in this episode
• “Why learn to write?” —Checker Finn
• “Artificial intelligence is not the end of high-school English” —Robert Pondiscio
• “Did a fourth grader write this? or the new chatbot?” —New York Times
• The study that Amber reviewed on the Research Minute: Maria V. Carbonari et al., The Challenges of Implementing Academic COVID Recovery Interventions: Evidence from the Road to Recovery Project, CALDER Working Paper (December 2022)
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