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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
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.
She wanted students to understand what writing, thinking and classrooms were
like before everything turned digital. So, she found a few dozen old manual
typewriters in thrift shops and online marketplaces, and created what her
syllabus calls an “analog” assignment."
Via Esther Schindler.
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
