College instructor turns to typewriters to curb AI use, teach life lessons
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Typewriters might force focus and remove shortcuts, but they also remove iteration, editing, and research — which are core parts of modern thinking and writing.
I wonder if a better approach is teaching students how to use AI critically (and verify output), instead of designing environments where it simply isn’t available.
I guess you are knee-jerking and confounding two notions: a) learning something, b ) using something, which are not the same. Using something that already knows something else is as old as pie, to wit, my tax advisor. If I want to be a tax advisor myself, I have to learn this shit and not outsource to another tax adsvisor. Typewriters help students learning a language by removing a distraction. Should the students to this themselves? Yes, but we all should spend less time on the internet, yet we don't. This tells us something ;)