Because Of AI, Students Are Losing The Ability To Write!

Educators are worried that many students can no longer write essays without A.I.

And it’s costing more than just grammar skills.

After years of studying how human beings write, the cognitive psychologist Ronald T. Kellogg concluded that drafting a basic persuasive essay was as mentally taxing as digging a ditch was physically exhausting.

Writing well requires a command of vocabulary, spelling and grammar.

It forces writers to comprehend a subject, to sift through their working memory of that topic, to organize and plan.

Writing an essay is so difficult that a person in the throes of it can do hardly anything else — as anyone who has shushed a spouse or child while trying to compose a decent sentence can attest.

Yet the American education system expects nearly all students to learn how to write an essay.

It’s little wonder, then, that as soon as a tool arrived promising to lessen the pain people grabbed it. (NYT)