Writing with, without and against the AI. Insights from a high school writing lab
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AI is enabling new practices to potentially extend education, but if such practices enhance or endanger learning is still under discussion. This study presents the findings of an explorative research conducted in a sophomore high school class in Italian-speaking Switzerland, aimed at investigating the impact of ChatGPT on fiction writing education. Students were provided with narrative stimuli and asked to write a short story on their own or with the support of ChatGPT 3.5. The resulting corpus was enriched with stories generated by ChatGPT alone. The analysis followed a dual quantitative and qualitative approach, examining the short stories in combination with feedback from authors and from a reading group composed of students of the same age. The results suggest clear differences among the three types of stories and a shift in focus during the writing process for students who used ChatGPT.
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