When Craig Schmidt gave his high school English students an assignment based on “Fahrenheit 451,” he threw them a curveball: He told them to use ChatGPT.
Schmidt asked the class to write several paragraphs reflecting on the dystopian novel, then feed them into the artificial intelligence chatbot for feedback. He distributed worksheets explaining how to use ChatGPT as a “writing partner” by instructing it to assume the persona of a critic or teacher and describing the feedback it should provide.