{"id":296884,"date":"2026-02-22T17:05:06","date_gmt":"2026-02-22T17:05:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/296884\/"},"modified":"2026-02-22T17:05:06","modified_gmt":"2026-02-22T17:05:06","slug":"some-teachers-are-experimenting-with-whether-ai-can-teach-writing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/296884\/","title":{"rendered":"Some teachers are experimenting with whether AI can teach writing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"HZ5GUWAVDRCV3NWMW5RD33IOHA\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">When Craig Schmidt gave his high school English students an assignment based on \u201cFahrenheit 451,\u201d he threw them a curveball: He told them to use ChatGPT.<\/p>\n<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"Y5COFUDM75BTTAERSLDR7KYXAQ\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">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 \u201cwriting partner\u201d by instructing it to assume the persona of a critic or teacher and describing the feedback it should provide.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"When Craig Schmidt gave his high school English students an assignment based on \u201cFahrenheit 451,\u201d he threw them&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":296885,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[365,363,364,111,139,69,163625,145],"class_list":{"0":"post-296884","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-artificial-intelligence","10":"tag-artificialintelligence","11":"tag-new-zealand","12":"tag-newzealand","13":"tag-nz","14":"tag-partner-exclude","15":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296884","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=296884"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296884\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/296885"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=296884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=296884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=296884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}