Rethinking our relationship with Writing in the AI-era

Our relationship with writing was irrevocably changed in November ‘22 with the release of ChatGPT. This seismic shift has been touted as the “death of the college essay,” a clarion call to change all assessments, distrust all writing for the classroom, and revert to centuries-old assessment methods (vivas, bluebooks, etc.). Long-time practitioners in online education recognized this shift coming–not from Generative AI, but from contract cheating and essay mills–in this session, I'll want to share a rosier view of the future of writing and our relationship to it.

Writing (noun) is dead—long live writing (verb).