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  Scholarly sources:

• The Challenges and Opportunities of AI-Assisted Writing: Developing AI Literacy for the AI Age:

  https://doi.org/10.1177/23294906231176517

• Using artificial intelligence in academic writing and research: An essential productivity tool:

  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cmpbup.2024.100145

• Future of education in the era of generative artificial intelligence: Consensus among Chinese scholars on applications of ChatGPT in schools:

  https://doi.org/10.1002/fer3.10

• App Review Using Tech Tools for Academic Writing: "Grammarly" as a Pedagogical Tool:

  https://www.proquest.com/scholarly-journals/app-review-using-tech-tools-academic-writing/docview/2860881595/se-2?accountid=14509

• Students’ Perceptions of the Use of AI in a Writing Class | Atlantis Preshttps://www.proquest.com/reports/exploring-undergraduate-student-perceptions/docview/3050690027/se-2

  
  

• Popular sources:

• How teachers and students feel about A.I. - The New York Times

• Impact of Artificial Intelligence in Education

• Will Chatbots Teach Your Children?

  
  

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• strong reasoning skills -- especially in logical reasoning

• High adoption rate -- "fasted growing web platform in history".

• Findings revealed that over half of people believe that AI-assisted writing enables high efficiency

• Common applications:

  research a topic/generate ideas/draft message/draft reports/ edit text/ summarizing research literature/ drafting and improving/ writing research manuscripts

• More efficient, innovative, equitable, diverse learning

Cons/Limitation:

• AI automation might not have access to the most up-to-date information --inaccurate information/biased.

• low transparency, spread of misinformation, less autonomy for students

"Paradoxically, with advancing technology, classical human skills and liberal arts such as critical thinking, communication, and problem-solving become more rather than less important."

Findings:

1) Instructors must change their teaching

It is a "losing battle" in banning/avoiding the use of AI generation.

• Concerns: 1)the technology is improving at warp speed that professors and instructors are facing issues of updating their strategies 2) decrease critical thinking&creativity 3)decrease authenticity & credibility of writing. “A primary challenge is that it removes the process of writing for students who use it. It is a process to plan or draft—and then write—and then revise. Writing is not a one-time transaction”

• Debate over whether AI-assisted writing are more equitable. 1) For second-language learners, poor writers and people with learning challengers, it help them to improve their writing.

Solutions:

• develop AI literacy:

  students should learn and understand the applications of AI and their strengths and weaknesses.

• What is the benefit on learning?

  
  

2)Cons:

• What is the risks of using digital writing tools and AI generator?

  
  

• What is the benefit on learning?

• How are we going to apply the digital writing tools and AI generation to get the benefit?

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2)Cons:

• What is the risks of using digital writing tools and AI?

• How do we deal with them?

• Example/Illustrations/Quotes

Benefits:

• idea development and research design.

• content development & structuring:

  "expanding text, offering predictive text capabilities, and providing autocompletion features"

• Literature review & synthesis

• Data manager & analysis

• Editing, review and publishing support

• Communication, outreach and ethical compliance:

  Benefit in interdisciplinary research

• AI-powered learning tools provides students more personalized guidance

• Claim: taking the evolution of generative AI cautiously.

• Opportunities in education brought by AI:

  • learning assistants : improvement and revision of students' writing, 1)receive guidance and suggestions to improve their grammar and sentence structure 2) define logical inconsistencies or gap in their arguments -- ensure cohesive written products.

  • Research assistants

  • assisting programming

• Benefit: 1)Providing extra resources

• ChatGPT and math plug-in to provide instant answers for numbers of problems. Just like a personalized tutor. (Singer)

• Decrease their cognitive ability, critical thinking, reasoning and problem solving skills

• Limit their ability of develop personal interpretation and meaningful discussion