We may be in the minority, but Bags and Chris are in full accord on this one: AI is going to do untold damage to boys’ learning in English.

Only this week, articles in the Christchurch Press Number of illiterate uni students ‘at crisis level’ and the Otago Daily Times Despair over Literacy Levels demonstrate that the literacy of University students in the towns where we teach is falling off a cliff–and we already know that this is even worse for boys.

This conversation explores exactly why AI is such a disaster for the classroom, what we’re doing about it, and why we think it should go the way of the “Whole Language” approach to the teaching of reading and “Modern Learning Environments” – straight to the dustbin; preferably before the learning of a generation of young men is sacrificed.