Outside our walls
Links to resources and interesting articles.
Updated
February 2025
On Chat GPT and Higher Education
Ted Chiang in The New Yorker helps non-experts understand how Large Language Models like ChatGPT work and muses on what they’re doing to student learning.
Columbia student Owen Kichizo Terry reveals how students use AI to do much of their writing—and thinking—for them with little fear of being found out.
The Chronicle’s Taylor Swaak recently examined how AI is shaking up higher ed.
James Lang in The Chronicle suggests changes to how we teach writing in our new ChatGPT reality.
Grant Cooper examines ChatGPT’s potential impacts on STEM education in The Journal of Science Education and Technology.
On Using Writing in the Classroom
The WAC Clearinghouse on using writing to enhance learning in the classroom. William Zinser as well (in book form).
Roxanne Gay talks higher ed and writing for the public.
Gurbutt and Houston examine how writing groups can help students develop an academic identity in The Journal on Centers for Teaching and Learning.
Robert Yagelski imagines writing as a way of being and ecological practice.
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