Over five weeks of Spring 2025 semester, Pushkin Industries senior producer and host Benjamin Naddaff-Hafrey took selected Berkeley undergraduates through… Continue reading Kasey and the Troubled Teen
Student Writings
Berkeley’s Hate Man
Over five weeks of Spring 2025 semester, Pushkin Industries senior producer and host Benjamin Naddaff-Hafrey took selected Berkeley undergraduates through… Continue reading Berkeley’s Hate Man
Birding: A Museum Exhibit
In Spring 2025, executive director of The Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life Hannah Weisman led an intensive weekend… Continue reading Birding: A Museum Exhibit
The Accident: Fair Oaks, 2011
In Fall 2024, memoirist and novelist Sylvia Brownrigg led an intensive weekend Art of Writing undergraduate workshop on memoir-writing. Kennedy… Continue reading The Accident: Fair Oaks, 2011
Just ChatGPT it!
“Just chatGPT it!” has become a common joke in my friend group as of late. Long essay that you forgot about? Just chatGPT it! Free-response question on your quiz you forgot to study for? Just chatGPT it! Email due to your research coordinator that you may or may not have been putting off for a few weeks? Just chatGPT it!
I’m starting to hate this joke.
ChatGPT, Thinking Chamber or Thought Stopper?
Concerns come when people ask ChatGPT to write an entire essay/script/work, copy/paste that essay into their own document, and edit some parts to their liking. Within minutes they have “their own” essay. This is problematic because it’s plagiarism. And if you want to debate that you can’t plagiarize an AI, then it’s at least not a paper that you have written. It gets an assignment done earlier, but the student hasn’t learned anything, hasn’t really written anything. They lose the essential writing skills that will benefit them in the future.
Does ChatGPT Stimulate Human Creativity?
ChatGPT may not yet ease student learning at research institutions. ChatGPT has a tremendous advantage over humans in the amount… Continue reading Does ChatGPT Stimulate Human Creativity?