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

Similar to previous overseas studies, teachers in our study spent significantly more time teaching paper-based writing than ...
CNET

Hemingwrite: You do one thing on this computer, and that's write

As a writer, I can't remember the last time I sat down at my computer, opened a fresh new document and worked on it until I was done. I typically have an idea for a story, sit down and... check my ...
The Journal

Students Write More, Write Better on the Computer: Rigorously Supported!

Singer and Ivory mis-spoke in their Nov. 4 article in the New York Times (front page, above the fold): "... there is little rigorous evidence so far to indicate that using computers in class improves ...
New Atlas

The Pentop Computer – interactive pen that talks to you as you write

NEW YORK, January 12, 2005 - Educational technology developer LeapFrog has released details of a new pentop computer. Dubbed the FLY, the pentop computer is designed to bring interactivity to the most ...
Psychology Today

Is It Better to Write By Hand or Computer?

Usually, I write drafts on a computer because I type faster than I write, and because I can name the document, file it on my computer, and find it afterward. But in class, when I give a freewrite ...
The Hechinger Report

AI might disrupt math and computer science classes – in a good way

A student goes over an article in University of Washington’s computer ethics class, taught by Prof. Dan Grossman. Credit: Ken Lambert/The Seattle Times The Hechinger Report covers one topic: education ...
Wired

Now for AI’s Latest Trick: Writing Computer Code

It can take years to learn how to write computer code well. SourceAI, a Paris startup, thinks programming shouldn’t be such a big deal. The company is fine-tuning a tool that uses artificial ...
ExtremeTech

Obama becomes the first US president to write a computer program

President Barack Obama, to kick off the annual Computer Science Education Week, has become the first US president (at least as far as we know) to write a computer program. While this might not seem ...
CNN

Teach U.S. kids to write computer code

Editor’s Note: Douglas Rushkoff writes a regular column for CNN.com. He is a media theorist and the author of “Program or Be Programmed: Ten Commands for a Digital Age” and “Life Inc.: How Corporatism ...
The Atlantic

A Computer Tried (and Failed) to Write This Article

None of this turned out how it was supposed to. Here I am, a human, writing a story that was assigned to a machine. If I’d published what the computer came up with, you’d be reading something like: ...
University of Toronto

Can a computer write a sonnet as well as Shakespeare?

AI or not AI: that is the question. Computer scientists in Australia teamed up with an expert in the University of Toronto’s department of English to design an algorithm that writes poetry following ...