Katherine Parrish

I’m going to start with what we did, and then get into the whys and wherefores and implications after. Oh, and the methods! The Friday group challenge was very much a Taskmaster inspired affair. The task: reproduce the image you’ve been shown using a text-to-image generative AI. One person in each of your groups has…

Years ago, I began to play around with a simple but effective activity where students were to illustrate some of the metaphors and similes in Macbeth. I’d been thinking about the fact that a lot of struggling readers don’t habitually, actively imagine or visualize what they are reading, even in fiction. I was also embarking…

When I returned to teaching in the high school English classroom this year, I had expected, “how do we deal with ChatGPT” to be part of a department, if not school, missive. But at my school, it hasn’t been mentioned at all. I’ll do some recon a bit later this month. I introduced the option…

I had my first real mindblown moments with GPT4 last night. I’ve been playing around with a creative project for which I needed a source text that was all text, but unconventional when it came to syntax, lineation, language, etc. After learning that GPT4 can read and analyze text from an uploaded pdf file, I…

During a session at the ELO conference, one of the organizers, P.D. Edgar happened to mention that he was training an LLM to write sestinas. My ears perked up, and I made a note to get in touch with him. (wanting to see for myself what ChatGPT4 would do with a sestina, I played around…