Using AI Assistance to Support Students with Specific Learning Disabilities in Writing
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A recent paper at NASET discusses using AI chatbots like ChatGPT-3 to help students with specific learning disabilities (SLD) who struggle with planning and organizing their writing. It explains how deficits in working memory, reasoning, and retrieving information can make it hard for these students to plan and structure their writing. Graphic organizers like outlines were recommended to help students organize their thoughts when writing. Traditionally teachers have to spend time making customized graphic organizers for each student. The text suggests ChatGPT-3 could quickly generate personalized outlines by prompting it with "Create an outline for writing about [topic]." This could save teachers time while providing a scaffold for students with writing disabilities. The text notes concerns about ChatGPT-3 accuracy and plagiarism risks. It recommends teachers review the outlines, set parameters to prevent misuse, and potentially use ChatGPT-3's basic outlines as a starting point to teach outlining skills. More research is suggested on using ChatGPT-3 as an explicit instruction tool for developing writing outlines. Overall, the text sees potential benefits of using AI to automate creation of graphic organizers, if thoughtfully implemented.
As an aside, I’ve found that I don’t like ChatGPT. It’s not that I don’t like AI assistants, I just don’t like how it works and responds to prompts in the spaces and places that I inhabit. I can’t change a setting, for example, to have it default on identity-first responses. The language library it uses is full of ableist / eugenics / dominant culture garbage. Additionally, to get the best features, they want $20/month.
What I use now, Claude.ai, is more of a personal assistant than a chatbot. I do pay for it, but I find it friendlier and it’s responses more in line with my needs.
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Using AI Assistance to Support Students with Specific Learning Disabilities in Writing
Using AI Assistance to Support Students with Specific Learning Disabilities in Writing
Using AI Assistance to Support Students with Specific Learning Disabilities in Writing
A recent paper at NASET discusses using AI chatbots like ChatGPT-3 to help students with specific learning disabilities (SLD) who struggle with planning and organizing their writing. It explains how deficits in working memory, reasoning, and retrieving information can make it hard for these students to plan and structure their writing. Graphic organizers like outlines were recommended to help students organize their thoughts when writing. Traditionally teachers have to spend time making customized graphic organizers for each student. The text suggests ChatGPT-3 could quickly generate personalized outlines by prompting it with "Create an outline for writing about [topic]." This could save teachers time while providing a scaffold for students with writing disabilities. The text notes concerns about ChatGPT-3 accuracy and plagiarism risks. It recommends teachers review the outlines, set parameters to prevent misuse, and potentially use ChatGPT-3's basic outlines as a starting point to teach outlining skills. More research is suggested on using ChatGPT-3 as an explicit instruction tool for developing writing outlines. Overall, the text sees potential benefits of using AI to automate creation of graphic organizers, if thoughtfully implemented.
As an aside, I’ve found that I don’t like ChatGPT. It’s not that I don’t like AI assistants, I just don’t like how it works and responds to prompts in the spaces and places that I inhabit. I can’t change a setting, for example, to have it default on identity-first responses. The language library it uses is full of ableist / eugenics / dominant culture garbage. Additionally, to get the best features, they want $20/month.
What I use now, Claude.ai, is more of a personal assistant than a chatbot. I do pay for it, but I find it friendlier and it’s responses more in line with my needs.
The AutSide is a reader-supported publication. To support my work, consider becoming a paid subscriber.