Who’d Have Thought? Students Who Prompt AI To Create Texts They’re Interested In Are More Likely To Want To Read Them

One of my first thoughts when ChatGPT came out three years ago was that it would be a great tool for students to create texts about high-interest topics that they wanted to read – whether it was a story about soccer featuring them as the star player, or about any nonfiction topic.

A new study finds that when students do this:

statistically significant differences were identified in favor of both experimental groups with respect to reading and comprehension skills as well as reading motivation. 

The study is titled Improving students’ reading, comprehension, and reading motivation through texts generated from their prompts using ChatGPT-4: a mixed-method study.

Of course, since many districts block AI tools, many students won’t be able to create these texts on their school-issued Chromebooks, but they can on their phones.