Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy Podcast

ChatGPT as a Writing Support with Drs. Sarah Levine and Sarah Beck

In this episode, host Matt Sroka chats with Drs. Sarah Levine and Sarah black about how students are using ChaptGPT in the classrooms and what this means for teachers. This conversation stems from their article for The Journal for Adolescent & Adult Literacy titled: How do students use ChatGPT as a writing support?

Sarah Levine is an assistant professor at Stanford University’s Graduate School of Education. She studies teaching and learning of literary interpretation and writing in urban high schools. She also studies ways that students can use AI and digital media (for example, natural language processing models like ChatGPT; visual representations of text like word clouds; and radio production) to support their writing.

Sarah Beck is a teacher educator and literacy researcher on the faculty at New York University. In addition to the JAAL article on students' use of ChatGPT, she and Sarah Levine have also written a conceptual paper on imagining futures for generative AI in literacy, published in Reading Research Quarterly. She has also published widely on dialogic writing assessment, in JAAL, Literacy, and English Teaching: Practice and Critique. Her book-length description of this approach is A Think Aloud Approach to Writing Assessment (2018) Teachers College Press.

Resources:

How do students use ChatGPT as a writing support?

The Next Word: A Framework for Imagining the Benefits and Harms of Generative AI as a Resource for Learning to Write

Beyond CheatBots: Examining Tensions in Teachers’ and Students’ Perceptions of Cheating and Learning with ChatGPT