AI assisted writing: Beyond fear and hype. With Sophia Mavridi.

I’m joined by Dr Sophia Mavridi to talk about her doctoral research: Second language students’ experiences of AI-assisted writing in higher education: A phenomenographic perspective. Sophia identifies six broad categories that emerge when observing students’ use of AI assisted writing, and in this podcast we dive into these categories: achieving better grades, expressing ideas more clearly, managing time/workload, habituating academic writing norms (e.g., criticality/reflective writing), increasing interaction, and increasing sophistication.  We go over inferences and implications of GenAI in student writing, how talk to students about developing a voice, and how we do this ou...