Tag: Digital
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I, Writerbot: Critical Literacy in an Age of Machine Authors
This is the second post on the topic of AI writers. For the first post, on the nature and purpose of essay writing when AI can write almost as well as our students, click here 👇 Critical Literacy and Digital Texts Critical literacy is an essential skill, both in the English classroom and beyond. It…
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Do Androids Dream of Electric Essays? AI in the English Classroom
Rise of the Machines The term artificial intelligence was coined as early as 1956, at a conference in Dartmouth College, New Hampshire. After a brief flurry of activity, government interest – and funding – dropped off dramatically until the 1980s, and it wasn’t until the 1990s that IBM’s Deep Blue caught the public eye when…