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Writing by hand!?: Teachers are going old-school in the fight against AI
Educators are turning back to blue books to battle the threat of artificial intelligence eroding genuine learning.
Last spring’s bleakest read on the landscape was New York Magazine’s article, “Everyone Is Cheating Their Way Through College,” which included a number of deeply unsettling revelations from reporter James D. Walsh — not just about how widespread AI dependence has already become, but about the speed with which it is changing what education means on an empirical level. In a Substack piece titled “Blue Books Reimagined,” Danielle Kane, a professor of Sociology at Purdue University, recalls the semester she decided to open her mind to AI and let her students use it for drafting writing assignments. And there is something satisfying about the return of blue books as a bulwark against AI tools: a David-and-Goliath moment where a small, family-run paper company is embraced as a corrective to the noisy, showboating industry that’s invaded our lives with nonconsensual force.
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