Just Because I Didn’t Type It Doesn’t Mean They…

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• Author: Kelly Webb-Davies
• Full Title: Just Because I Didn’t Type It Doesn’t Mean They’re Not My Own Ideas
• Category: #articles
• Summary:: Kelly Webb-Davies argues that using AI tools like ChatGPT can help students express their ideas more effectively, especially those from marginalized backgrounds. She emphasizes that the ideas themselves are valuable, regardless of how they are expressed. To improve education, we need to focus on critical thinking and creativity rather than just conforming to traditional writing norms.
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Highlights

• But what if we’re confusing the container with the content? What if our fundamental mistake is treating ideas and their expression as inseparable? (View Highlight)
• The unacknowledged reality of academia is that we’ve rarely assessed pure thinking – we’ve assessed thinking-plus-expression. (View Highlight)
• Consider: if someone’s brilliant analysis gets translated from French to English, we still consider the ideas the intellectual property of the author, right? So, in the same way, if someone filters their ideas through ChatGPT to sound more “academic,” whose work is it? I’d argue that it’s still theirs. The ideas, the connections, the insights – those came from the “writer’s” brain. AI just helped them adhere to the norms of how society expects those ideas to be packaged. (View Highlight)
• When I was teaching academic English we experimented in class with students “academicising” their writing with ChatGPT. But I made sure they didn’t just uncritically accept the output – we spent time analsying the language changes: What vocabulary changed? Was the change needed? How is the grammar different and why? Did the AI actually express what you were trying to say, or did it change the meaning? How do you know? (View Highlight)