Help Older Students Learn to Read

Like so many, I’ve always been interested in Artificial Intelligence and what it can do. ChatGPT has certainly been everywhere in the news lately.

With my computer science background, I have asked it to write a number of programs for me. I’m just curious as to whether it could do the task. It’s a reminder that you need to be very specific about directions for the most accurate results. I’ve been impressed with the code it generates but it reminded me of so many assignments I marked in the past. No internal documentation!

Then, I turned to writing. It brought me back to Grade 6 or 7 when we had to write an original story. I was never a big writer but I was interested in vampires at the time so wrote a piece about that. I spent more than my usual 20 minutes on the writing and thought that…