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2018
Volume 57, Issue 2
  • ISSN: 0007-8204
  • E-ISSN: 1943-2216
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Abstract

The recent ELATE position statement on generative AI in English education is nuanced and wise, perhaps the best that can be produced in this historical moment. However, we must fully grasp the dangers of the “efficiency” celebrated by the technological, economic, and ideological interests driving these tools, which have consequences for individual cognition and democratic participation. ELA professionals must champion broad human engagements with language, including writing that prizes people’s experiences, thoughts, imaginations, and voices, for purposes beyond efficiency.

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