Chris Kennedy admits that when he was in school "my dad was an English teacher, and he read every essay before I submitted it." This continues while he was a newspaper columnist in university. He notes that Nick Potkalitskywrites in In Praise of Assistance that "Students have always learned through assistance. From peers, from teachers, from resources…" Yes, but the story isn't that simple. Kennedy writes, "affluent students often have 'small seminars, writing conferences, office hours, peer review sessions' while others are in systems where meaningful feedback barely exists." Quite so. The arrival of AI means lower class students can get the same (or even better) assistance that higher class students have always had. The next challenge: "the digital divide is no longer just about device access. It is about knowing how to use the tool well. A student with strong digital literacy might turn ChatGPT into a Socratic tutor. Another might never get past using it as a homework completion machine." Couldn't agree more.
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