Ahimsa"A college instructor turns to typewriters to curb AI-written work and teach life lessons"
https://apnews.com/article/typewriter-ai-cheating-chatgpt-cornell-ce10e1ca0f10c96f79b7d988bb56448b
Favorite bit:
"Without every answer readily available at his fingertips, he asked his classmates for help, which Phelps heartily encouraged."
Made me laugh:
"…the dinging bell signifies the end of a line and the need to manually return the carriage to start the next line.
(“Oh,” said one student, “that’s why it’s called ‘return’ ”)"
College instructor turns to typewriters to curb AI-written work
Once a semester, a Cornell University instructor requires her students to complete an in-class assignment using typewriters — an exercise to help them understand what writing, thinking and classrooms were like before everything turned digital. The exercise started in 2023, as Grit Mathias Phelps grew frustrated that her German language students were using generative AI and online translation platforms to churn out grammatically perfect assignments. The revival is part of a national trend toward old-school testing methods like in-class pen-and-paper exams and oral tests to prevent AI use for assignments on laptops.