Interesting interview! Thanks! I’d like to push back a little on the idea that writing is a method of knowledge production—articulating knowledge in the context of writing to learn. In some ways reading is much more significant in knowledge production than writing—my point being that the relationship between literacy and knowledge production is complex and multifaceted. AI has no capacity to produce knowledge, but to represent language that has been used to communicate information and ideas. In this way, AI is more like reading than like writing. I would love to see classroom based research involving a group teachers who integrate AI into reading assignments AND a group who use it integrated into writing assignments. My bet is that the reading teachers discern a paradigm more to their liking than the writing teachers. The way into integration between AI and literacy may be first through reading and then writing. What do you think?
Interesting interview! Thanks! I’d like to push back a little on the idea that writing is a method of knowledge production—articulating knowledge in the context of writing to learn. In some ways reading is much more significant in knowledge production than writing—my point being that the relationship between literacy and knowledge production is complex and multifaceted. AI has no capacity to produce knowledge, but to represent language that has been used to communicate information and ideas. In this way, AI is more like reading than like writing. I would love to see classroom based research involving a group teachers who integrate AI into reading assignments AND a group who use it integrated into writing assignments. My bet is that the reading teachers discern a paradigm more to their liking than the writing teachers. The way into integration between AI and literacy may be first through reading and then writing. What do you think?
That is a fascinating perspective. I would also be interested in seeing how reading teachers integrate AI.