[ATTW-L] Argument for students needing to learn to write (despite having ChatGPT)

[Keisha E. McKenzie]

Hi Michael, thank you for sharing this film. I'm glad you're still making
this case to your students.
I'll share your video with colleagues: we've been exploring AI adoption and
ethical concerns about its development and use.

I noticed that your film comes back to a specific image a couple of times—a
realistic person using a computer in the foreground while a humanoid robot
stands in the background and in shadow. Did your team choose that
illustration intentionally or was it someone else's choice during the
production process?

For future projects, you might value a project from the UK called Making AI
More Understandable
<https://www.bbc.com/rd/projects/making-ai-more-understandable>. I've used
their guidance around representing machine learning, and they've created a
standalone site for more info and recommendations:
https://betterimagesofai.org

Regards, and thanks again for sharing.
Keisha
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Keisha E. McKenzie, PhD
*McKenzie Consulting Group*
communication. systems. social good.


On Mon, Jul 31, 2023 at 4:37 PM Alley, Michael P <mpa13 at psu.edu> wrote:

> Good afternoon, Teachers of Technical Writing—
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> A challenge for us this fall will be persuading our engineering and
> science students that they need to learn to write—even in a world with
> artificial intelligence programs such as ChatGPT. Presented in the following
> film is an argument for such learning <https://vimeo.com/850326621>.
> Please note that the ideas in this film arose from a *Journal of
> Engineering Education editorial
> <https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/jee.20541>* written by
> Professor Catherine Berdanier and me.
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> Please feel free to assign this film to your students.
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> Best wishes,
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> Michael Alley
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