To keep AI out of her classroom, this high school English teacher went analog

"Each class begins with several minutes of journaling in notebooks, and nearly all assignments must be handwritten and physically turned in. "If you walk into almost any one of my classes today, you will see that all of my students are handwriting," Bond says, "and they are journaling, and they are constantly and consistently doing everything with a pen or a pencil.""

"She says going almost entirely analog is the best way she's found to keep generative artificial intelligence out of her American literature and composition classes. "A lot of people say to me: 'Aren't you afraid that they're going to get behind?' And my response is: 'I know that when my students leave my class that they know how to think and they know how to write.'""

Chanea Bond teaches American literature and composition at Southwest High School in the Fort Worth Independent School District, which serves mostly low-income students. Bond removed laptops and requires nearly all assignments to be handwritten, beginning each class with journaling. The analog approach aims to keep generative artificial intelligence out of coursework and to preserve student ownership of thinking and writing. An EdWeek Research Center poll found roughly 60% of teachers used AI at least a little in classrooms. Early attempts to incorporate AI—having students use it to generate thesis statements—resulted in outsourced thinking and weaker engagement with texts.

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