Teachers Should Make Students Use Typewriters To Cease AI Usage

I think letting students use typewriters where they can’t use AI or spelling and grammar check is the right decision to make.

Since 2023, a German teacher at Cornell University, in Ithaca, NY, made a rule that students had to use typewriters. This rule was to prevent cheating and to show what students had to experience in the 1900’s.

Before the rule in 2023, Cornell students in this German class used AI to cheat, as reported by AP News. In order to stop this, Ms. Phelps, the German teacher, switched to typewriters and had her two children search the class for any technology being used.

According to undefined, about 1 in 10 assignments for students involved AI usage and about 3 in 100 assignments are completely AI-generated. This means a lot of people AI to cheat, so switching out computers for other materials to reduce AI usage is the right decision.

This is a good choice because it stops cheating. Since 2023, not a lot of people have been cheating in Ms. Phelps’ class. This shows that switching to other machines will not allow people to cheat with AI.

The rule shows people what students experienced in the 1900s. This is important so Ms. Phelps’ students can understand what pupils felt like in the past and what life was like then. Additionally, this can teach the German students a life lesson so they won’t use more AI for cheating because people in the past weren’t able to.

Some people might say this rule is not fair because it is hard to write on typewriters, but this is the right punishment to use if students decide to use AI. Because people have been using AI, it is very hard for them to succeed without using AI, and AI may not always be right.

Other teachers should switch to paper-and-pen testing, monitored testing, or typewriter testing to ensure less cheating. Cheating can block students’ way to success because students are so confident with AI that they use it all the time, and students don’t know that AI can always be wrong.