Tag: creative writing

• Teaching Writing in the Age of AI: Assessment and “Cheating”

  

  This is the fourth post in a series on Teaching Writing in the Age of AI. The first post provided an overview of some of the changes we’re facing as the number of AI writing tools increases. Post two covered conversations about academic integrity, and the third post offered some practical advice on teaching students…

  Leon Furze

  February 18, 2023

  AI, assessment, curriculum, Digital, education, reading, VCE, writing

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• Advanced Techniques for ChatGPT in education

  

  In a previous post on Practical Strategies for ChatGPT, I explored some of the basics of prompting the AI language model. I also organised education tasks into six areas: In this post I’ll go deeper into prompt techniques, and I’m organising around five key skills that could be used to lift your prompts in any…

  Leon Furze

  February 1, 2023

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• Socrates Against The Machine: Can Looking Back Help Us to Think About the Future of Education?

  

  Socrates Against The Machine: Can Looking Back Help Us to Think About the Future of Education? In the past two weeks, AI writing has gone mainstream. OpenAI’s ChatGPT, an app sitting on top of its latest large language model, was released for “public testing”, and it seems to have captured the imagination of a large chunk…

  Leon Furze

  December 13, 2022

  AI, writing

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• Planning for the 2023 VCE English/EAL Study Design

  

  Update: Since writing these original posts VCAA have released even more advice about assessment. I’m adding my recent posts on comparative judgement and how to assess the VCE Crafting and Creating Texts outcomes below. I’ve also added the ‘Teachers as Writers’ series of posts because the new Crafting and Creating Texts units are going to…

  Leon Furze

  June 18, 2022

  reading, VCE, writing

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