Feels like this is treating AI as something to be excluded rather than something students need to learn how to work with.
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.
TFA is about students learning a language (German). How can a student critically verify AI output of a supposedly German sentence if the student does not speak German?
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 ;)
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.
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