‘Fun and challenging’: Cornell professor uses typewriters to battle AI

‘Fun and challenging’: Cornell professor uses typewriters to battle AI

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A Cornell University instructor has students use typewriters as part of an assignment as her way of battling the encroachment of artificial intelligence into writing assignments. The Associated Press recently profiled German language instructor Grit Phelps and her novel approach which she has employed since 2023. The AP reported: The exercise started in spring 2023…

A college instructor turns to typewriters to curb AI-written work and teach life lessons

A college instructor turns to typewriters to curb AI-written work and teach life lessons

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The scene is right out of the 1950s with students pecking away at manual typewriters, the machines dinging at the end of each line. Once each semester, Grit Matthias Phelps, a German language instructor at Cornell University, introduces her students to the raw feeling of typing without online assistance. No screens, online dictionaries, spellcheckers or…