John Warner
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If you're in school right now and planning on using ChatGPT or AI to do your work for you this year, you're going to want to watch this video.
If you're in school right now and planning on using ChatGPT or AI to do your work for you this year, you're going to want to watch this video.
If you're in school right now and planning on using ChatGPT or AI to do your work for you this year, you're going to want to watch this video.
Ja, sicher. Ich glaube, ich sah es, als es veröffentlicht wurde. I had actually played around with GPT 3.0, right, and ChatGPT was 3.5, and had written a little piece about it and said, this stuff is not really a threat to student writing or education, because while it could do something that seemed sort of like writing, it was still essentially gibberish, right? It was not doing the work.
Ja, sicher. Ich glaube, ich sah es, als es veröffentlicht wurde. I had actually played around with GPT 3.0, right, and ChatGPT was 3.5, and had written a little piece about it and said, this stuff is not really a threat to student writing or education, because while it could do something that seemed sort of like writing, it was still essentially gibberish, right? It was not doing the work.
Ja, sicher. Ich glaube, ich sah es, als es veröffentlicht wurde. I had actually played around with GPT 3.0, right, and ChatGPT was 3.5, and had written a little piece about it and said, this stuff is not really a threat to student writing or education, because while it could do something that seemed sort of like writing, it was still essentially gibberish, right? It was not doing the work.
So I saw ChatGPT and like a lot of people, I was like, whoa, hold the phone. This thing can do something that I didn't think machines could do, which is string together sensible syntax in response to a plain language prompt. And so I was like... das ist neu, wir müssen damit umgehen.
So I saw ChatGPT and like a lot of people, I was like, whoa, hold the phone. This thing can do something that I didn't think machines could do, which is string together sensible syntax in response to a plain language prompt. And so I was like... das ist neu, wir müssen damit umgehen.
So I saw ChatGPT and like a lot of people, I was like, whoa, hold the phone. This thing can do something that I didn't think machines could do, which is string together sensible syntax in response to a plain language prompt. And so I was like... das ist neu, wir müssen damit umgehen.
Aber gleichzeitig, weil ich als Schriftsteller frustriert war, über eine Dekade lang über die Arten von Dingen, die die Studenten in der Schule schreiben sollen, zu tun haben, war ich aufgeregt. Ich war aufgeregt, eine Konversation über das Schreiben als menschliche Aktivität zu haben, zu denken, zu fühlen und zu kommunizieren.
Aber gleichzeitig, weil ich als Schriftsteller frustriert war, über eine Dekade lang über die Arten von Dingen, die die Studenten in der Schule schreiben sollen, zu tun haben, war ich aufgeregt. Ich war aufgeregt, eine Konversation über das Schreiben als menschliche Aktivität zu haben, zu denken, zu fühlen und zu kommunizieren.
Aber gleichzeitig, weil ich als Schriftsteller frustriert war, über eine Dekade lang über die Arten von Dingen, die die Studenten in der Schule schreiben sollen, zu tun haben, war ich aufgeregt. Ich war aufgeregt, eine Konversation über das Schreiben als menschliche Aktivität zu haben, zu denken, zu fühlen und zu kommunizieren.
Well, the five-paragraph essay is essentially a template that can be used to make a simulation of an argument, where you establish your thesis and topic at the beginning. You use three body paragraphs to support the thesis that you've established at the beginning, and then you summarize those three paragraphs in your conclusion, which starts with in conclusion.
Well, the five-paragraph essay is essentially a template that can be used to make a simulation of an argument, where you establish your thesis and topic at the beginning. You use three body paragraphs to support the thesis that you've established at the beginning, and then you summarize those three paragraphs in your conclusion, which starts with in conclusion.
Well, the five-paragraph essay is essentially a template that can be used to make a simulation of an argument, where you establish your thesis and topic at the beginning. You use three body paragraphs to support the thesis that you've established at the beginning, and then you summarize those three paragraphs in your conclusion, which starts with in conclusion.
And in our school system, that also has come along with all kinds of other prescriptions that students are familiar with, things like No contractions, never use the first person pronoun. I always have transition phrases.
And in our school system, that also has come along with all kinds of other prescriptions that students are familiar with, things like No contractions, never use the first person pronoun. I always have transition phrases.
And in our school system, that also has come along with all kinds of other prescriptions that students are familiar with, things like No contractions, never use the first person pronoun. I always have transition phrases.
In fact, I still recall a student I had at my last job at College of Charleston, where she had brought in her high school notebook that had three handwritten pages of the allowable transition words and phrases that she had checked with her teachers over the years. And she wanted to see if I was good with them also. That's true, because that's like...
In fact, I still recall a student I had at my last job at College of Charleston, where she had brought in her high school notebook that had three handwritten pages of the allowable transition words and phrases that she had checked with her teachers over the years. And she wanted to see if I was good with them also. That's true, because that's like...