With well-designed, intentional prompts, keyboarding instruction can help students develop several skills at once.

Once a semester, a Cornell University instructor requires her students to complete an in-class assignment using typewriters — ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An image collage containing 2 images, Image 1 shows Grit Matthias Phelps demonstrates using a typewriter to students at Cornell ...

Ratchaphon Lertdamrongwong, a sophomore at Cornell University, laughs with classmates while using a typewriter for a German writing assignment on Friday, March 20, 2026, in Ithaca, N.Y. The professor, ...

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The scene is right out of the 1950s with students pecking away at manual typewriters, the machines dinging at the end of each line. Once each semester, Grit Matthias Phelps, a German language ...