driving me insane that in all these conversations about students turning in essays written by chatgpt, no one's making the very obvious argument that this is only happening because our education system places zero emphasis on qualitative understanding of a subject, instead favoring the infantile fantasy that knowledge you can measure numerically is the highest-quality and most important type of knowledge to the exclusion of all else
make no bones about it, chatgpt wouldn't be "disrupting" english classes if english classes weren't run like math classes
@sarahzedig fwiw this changed my writing life by basically pointing out that school writing is writing for teachers and not an audience.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aFwVf5a3pZM
and maybe some other people also need that
@sarahzedig the last half of each is just examples, so they're reasonable 40m watches.
there's a second one that's more of the same but with some different angles, and a smaller class so he gets to go into more detail.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vtIzMaLkCaM
but both have a lot of stuff that, even as someone who was Good at non-school Writing, I didn't think of -- because I hadn't thought of writing education actually just being writing for educators.