This review by Nathaniel Myers has now been published in Critical AI at this link https://read.dukeupress.edu/critical-ai/article/doi/10.1215/2834703X-12096027/406202/TextGenEd-Teaching-with-Text-Generation; an extract is pasted in below. If your institution lacks access to Critical AI please encourage them to subscribe. If you are an independent scholar please write to criticalai@sas.rutgers.edu.
EXTRACT:
When TextGenEd was published in August 2023, ChatGPT had dropped only nine months earlier, and even teachers outside the field of writing studies looked to a sustained effort of some kind to help imagine what an AI-impacted writing-intensive classroom might look like. TextGenEd was that effort. Yet the volume is more than a collection of assignments and activities. For one, though the anxieties and concerns brought about by ChatGPT’s release inform the collection, its scope is broader. Indeed, the call for papers for TextGenEd predated OpenAI’s November 2022 product, so that some of its featured assignments involve earlier GPT models, and many engage larger contexts like natural language processing, machine learning, and “neural” networks. Additionally, editors Annette Vee, Tim Laquintano, and Carly Schnitzler’s brief introductory history of computational and automated writing technologies helpfully places ChatGPT within a longer history.
Consequently, even as our culture is caught in the market-driven slipstream…