In this issue:
Writing to learn: Creativity and AI
Since the release of OpenAI’s ChatGPT generative artificial intelligence chatbot back in the fall of 2022 (almost exactly two years ago to the day), not much has changed. Debates have not yet ceased to engage with the AI tool, cast alternatively as an obstacle needing to be overcome by some and as a revolutionary time-saver by others. Nonetheless, one of its qualities we can perhaps all agree on is its persistence. The WAC! Newsletter previously covered AI writing in a past issue (April 2023) just as instructors were beginning to feel its presence in their classrooms.
In this fall edition of the WAC! Newsletter, our contributors revisit questions on the use and role of AI tools such as ChatGPT and Grammarly, ranging from an experiential report on its use as a pedagogical aid in the writing classroom to raising new questions engendered by the existence of AI writing further downstream, i.e. revisiting “writing-to-learn” teaching strategies and the employment of creative writing as well as out-the-box approaches.