Tag: english
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OpenAI is Coming for Writers
There’s something brewing at OpenAI, and it’s not their often promised AGI. While Altman seduces investors with the speculative promises of Artificial General Intelligence and ever more powerful versions of GPT, a very real play is being made for much more concrete territory. Over the past few months, a number of product releases and updates…
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Teaching AI Writing: Publication
This is the sixth and final post in a series exploring how generative artificial intelligence can be applied to the writing cycle from our book Practical Writing Strategies. If you haven’t already read them, check out the first five posts on purpose, exploration, ideas, skills, and collaboration. Throughout this series, I have tried to demonstrate…
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Teaching AI Writing: Collaboration
This is the fifth post in a series exploring how Generative AI can be incorporated into the writing cycle from our book Practical Writing Strategies. Check out the previous stages of the writing cycle: Purpose, Exploration, Ideas, and Skills. Collaboration in the Writing Cycle By the time students reach this stage in the writing cycle,…
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Teaching AI Writing: Skills
This is the fourth post in a series exploring how generative artificial intelligence can be used as part of the writing cycle. If you haven’t already, check out the previous posts on purpose, exploration and ideas. In the writing cycle that we wrote about in Practical Writing Strategies we break out “skills” as separate from…
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The Myth of the AI First Draft
I write daily, often for hours at a time. I’m an author of fiction and nonfiction, and even when I’m not writing something for publication I fill notebooks with ideas and frequently illegible scribbles. I’ve also taught writing for almost two decades, and I understand that not everyone loves writing as much as I do.…
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Teaching AI Writing: Ideas
This is the third post in a series exploring how generative artificial intelligence tools can be a part of the writing cycle to help students improve their writing technique, style, and structure. For the previous post on the ‘exploration’ stage, click here. Idea generation can of course happen at any time during the writing process,…
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Teaching AI Writing: Exploration
This is the second post in the series, focusing on how generative artificial intelligence tools, such as text and image generation, can support the writing process. It follows the writing cycle outlined in our book Practical Writing Strategies, emphasising how generative AI can enhance writing skills without relying entirely on technology. For the previous post…
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VCE English and EAL for 2024
As we head towards the start of Term One in Victoria, many of you will be teaching VCE English for the first time. An increasing number may also be teaching it out of field, drafted in from the humanities or other subjects to fill gaps in schools. With a study design that’s only one year…
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Teaching AI Writing: Purpose
This is the first post in a series exploring how multimodal generative AI (genAI) writing tools can be applied to all stages of the writing cycle, from purpose through to publication. The six stages of the writing cycle, taken from the book Practical Writing Strategies co-authored by myself and Benjamin White, encourage writers to explore…
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2024 English/EAL Exam: What we know so far
This post is a reflection on the updates from Helen Billett and Kellie Heintz at the VATE conference on November 23rd. These comments are based on DRAFT discussions of the examination. The actual sample examination will be published on Monday December 11th and details might change. Now that we’ve got that disclaimer out of the…