A teacher quit because ChatGPT changed how students write. Mike Michalowicz compares AI resistance to how educators once fought calculators and the abacus, arguing that fear of new tools is a pattern that repeats. The real question: does outsourcing writing to AI make students lazier or just change what skills matter.
So we're talking about a teacher who quit teaching due to the rise of large language models, LLMs, like ChatGPT, which have changed student approaches to writing. I've been thinking about this and I'm pretty new to it and only using it here and there, and I've been absolutely gobsmacked by some of the wonderful stuff that I can create with that. Yes. I mean, the tool of simplifying things for myself, it's fantastic. But from the perspective of a teacher who's gotta teach a student how to face the challenges of sitting with words and really learning how to cultivate words to come together to create something completely new. And you're not getting that with ChatGPT. I mean, it's not completely new.
Yeah, but this is the fate of humanity. It just always goes this way. I think there was a teacher who probably quit when the abacus came out. Oh my God.
Oh, if these kids, could they be lazier? Could they be lazier?
Moving those seashells across a board. And then there's probably a teacher who quit when the calculator came out.
You're right. You're— that's true. I didn't think of that.
These are tools that are inevitable and we need to embrace. I wish the teacher would say, this is the future. How can you as a human being leverage it and play at a whole new level?
