A lot of teacher-authors also read my WordDreams blog (for writers). In this column, I share the most popular post from the past month.
AI in Writing
I use AI judiciously and never without adult supervision. It is efficient if well directed, provides good summaries of articles on a factual level, and is fast if I’m not looking for clever, creative, complex, or any sort of conscience. Accepting those limitations, I find it good for summaries of articles on my education blog and lists for just about anything. AI loves lists.
What AI can’t do is at the absolute core of fiction writing:
- provide personal experience
- act with any sort of moral compass
- make judgments
- bare its soul
- bleed on a page
- put the lion in a character’s heart
- sacrifice, say, the easy wrong for the hard right
- choose the right attitude in a given set of circumstances
- find a North star
- put charisma in a story or character–or setting
As a result, I use it where it suits, avoid it where it fails. How about you?
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Jacqui Murray has been teaching K-18 technology for 30 years. She is the editor/author of over a hundred tech ed resources including a K-12 technology curriculum, K-8 keyboard curriculum, K-8 Digital Citizenship curriculum. She is an adjunct professor in tech ed, Master Teacher, webmaster for four blogs, freelance journalist on tech ed topics, contributor to NEA Today, and author of the tech thrillers, To Hunt a Sub and Twenty-four Days. You can find her resources at Structured Learning.
