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Patrick Grafton-Cardwell is an Orthodox Christian, a husband, a father of three young girls, a high school teacher of rhetoric, and a dabbler in all things humanities. He has a PhD in philosophy with a specialization in aesthetics and philosophy of art. Patrick teaches at Regents School of Austin.
Large Language Models have made it more difficult to teach teenagers to write. The challenge presents us with an opportunity to develop a deeper, more resilient, classical pedagogy of writing. I’ll argue that writing is a craft, centered around the cultivation of our thoughts and words. The practical upshot of this is that to teach writing well, we need to apprentice our students.
Large language models are a serious problem for teachers of writing. This talk will help members and other conference attendees think about what writing is and how to teach it in a way that makes their instruction of writing less susceptible to disruption from these changes.
Patrick Grafton-Cardwell is an Orthodox Christian, a husband, a father of three young girls, a high school teacher of rhetoric, and a dabbler in all things humanities. He has a PhD in philosophy with a specialization in aesthetics and philosophy of art. Patrick teaches at Regents School of Austin.