From Blank Page to Brilliant Print: Using AI Story Generators to Kindle Student Writing

Transform AI from a cheating threat into a creative assistant in the ELA classroom. “Writer’s block” is a problem that everyone faces from time to time, and it is so easy to give up on it in the eyes of an elementary aged student. In this conference, we will reframe Generative AI as a catalyst for creative writing, so that blockage can be mitigated. Move beyond the fear that AI can’t be an academic tool and can only be used by students for cheating intentions and discover a whole new world of how AI story generators such as ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude can assist your students in serving as a co-writer and idea generator. To take it even a step further, using AI generators such as DeepAI’s image generator to help with imagining the story or Mubert, which helps generate music or sounds to go along with the story, can inspire students to want to write more creatively through prompting specific ideas into the tool. By using the “Culturally Responsive Personalized Learning (CRPL) framework, educators that learn about these tools will leave with the knowledge that they can empower every student to find their voice and fall in love with writing.