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Students spend more time learning to write on paper than computers—does this need to change?

Writing using computers is a vital life skill. We are constantly texting, posting, blogging and emailing. Subscribe to our newsletter for the latest sci-tech news updates. This is a huge change for ...
YourTango

Teachers Say Kids Today Write In Chicken Scratch — And It's A Much Bigger Issue Than Parents Realize

Most of us remember spending years of school learning how to write, first tracing letters, then writing our names and eventually progressing to cursive. But as technology has taken over, that ...
The Chronicle of Philanthropy

Learning How to Write Grant-Proposals

Q: I’d like to learn how to write grant proposals, with an eye toward doing it on a freelance basis. What’s the best and quickest way for me to learn this craft, and can you recommend any resources?

Students are learning to write for AI detectors, not for humans

In one case, an AI checker pre-installed on a school-issued Chromebook flagged a student's essay on Harrison Bergeron by Kurt Vonnegut as "18% AI-written" simply because ...
Inside Higher Ed

Writing Faculty Push for the Right to Refuse AI

As universities rush to adopt generative AI–powered tools that claim to enhance teaching, learning and workforce preparation, a growing contingent of academics is questioning where that urgency is ...
Opinion

A writing professor’s new task in the age of AI: Teaching students when to struggle

I was early to the generative AI wave in higher education: I was among the first professors who teach writing to publish in an academic journal about generative AI and critical thinking, and I am now ...
The Conversation

Australian students spend more time learning to write on paper than computers – does this need to change?

Anabela Malpique has received funding from The Ian Potter Foundation and currently receives funding from The Collier Charitable Foundation. Deborah Pino Pasternak has received funding from the ...