Saving Writing Classes from Extinction: ChatGPT as Part of the Teaching Pedagogy

Alexandra Jeikner

2025

Abstract

The advent of generative AI (GenAI) tools such as ChatGPT in late 2022 shook the academic world to its core. Educators feared that students would rely on such tools instead of engaging in critical thinking and that objective assessment of writing and thinking skills would become impossible. Several educational institutions passed strict academic policies that labelled the usage of such tools forms of plagiarism. However, an increasing body of literature demonstrates that as long as specific parameters are considered, it is the educators’ responsibility to include GenAI tools in the teaching process, using them to promote both critical writing skills and AI-literacy skills. This manuscript presents activities that involve low to moderate ChatGPT-use, where the students retain a leading role, and assessments rubrics that evaluate both critical writing and engagement with AI. It is a position paper which bases its evidence on existing literature, not experimental results, since the activities have not been yet tested owing to departmental restrictions regarding all use of GenAI tools.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Jeikner A. (2025). Saving Writing Classes from Extinction: ChatGPT as Part of the Teaching Pedagogy. In Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Computer Supported Education - Volume 1: CSEDU; ISBN 978-989-758-746-7, SciTePress, pages 500-511. DOI: 10.5220/0013351000003932

in Bibtex Style

@conference{csedu25,
author={Alexandra Jeikner},
title={Saving Writing Classes from Extinction: ChatGPT as Part of the Teaching Pedagogy},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Computer Supported Education - Volume 1: CSEDU},
year={2025},
pages={500-511},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0013351000003932},
isbn={978-989-758-746-7},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Computer Supported Education - Volume 1: CSEDU
TI - Saving Writing Classes from Extinction: ChatGPT as Part of the Teaching Pedagogy
SN - 978-989-758-746-7
AU - Jeikner A.
PY - 2025
SP - 500
EP - 511
DO - 10.5220/0013351000003932
PB - SciTePress