Educational Research and AI-Generated Writing: Confronting the Coming Tsunami
Tamara Tate, Shayan Doroudi, Daniel Ritchie, Ying Xu, Mark Warschauer
Abstract
The public release and surprising capacity of ChatGPT has brought AI-enabled text generation into the forefront for educators and academics. ChatGPT and similar text generation tools raise numerous questions for educational practitioners, policymakers, and researchers. We begin by first describing what large language models are and how they function, and then situate them in the history of technology’s complex interrelationship with literacy, cognition, and education. Finally, we discuss implications for the field.
Topics & Concepts
Function (biology)LiteracyField (mathematics)CognitionEngineering ethicsPolitical scienceSociologyPedagogyPsychologyEngineeringEvolutionary biologyMathematicsBiologyPure mathematicsNeuroscienceText Readability and SimplificationTopic ModelingOnline Learning and Analytics