There was some interest in my post yesterday about what I called “generative textbooks,” but based on people’s comments I don’t know that I explained the idea very clearly. The idea of a “generative textbook” is that, instead of containing instructional content, it provides the learner with a series of prompts they can use to elicit information from a large language model like ChatGPT. Here’s a brief example to clarify what I mean. For an example of a section from a traditional textbook, scan this page about sleep from OpenStax’s Introduction to Psychology textbook. The generative textbook version of the…