A college instructor is fighting back against AI-written assignments by bringing typewriters into the classroom.
Students are now required to complete their work on actual typewriters instead of relying on tools like ChatGPT.
The
move isn’t just about catching cheaters — it’s also about teaching
valuable life lessons like patience, focus, and the satisfaction of
creating something with your own hands.
It’s a refreshing push against the over-reliance on artificial intelligence in education.
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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 delete keys.
The exercise started in spring 2023 as Phelps grew frustrated with the reality that students were using generative AI and online translation platforms to churn out grammatically perfect assignments.
“What’s the point of me reading it if it’s already correct anyway, and you didn’t write it yourself? Could you produce it without your computer?” said Phelps.
He was previously deemed mentally unable to stand trial for a stabbing incident, yet he was released back into the community.
This is another tragic example of the system failing to protect the public by repeatedly releasing dangerous individuals.
Many are saying enough is enough — the revolving door for violent and mentally unstable offenders has to end before more innocent people are hurt.
