Once a semester, a Cornell University instructor requires her students to complete an in-class assignment using typewriters — an exercise to help them understand what writing, thinking and classrooms ...

Students at Lincoln Park Performing Arts Charter School got a special treat, all for trying something different. Mr. Frederic Durbin introduced an analog writing class to his workload this year.

"Each student selected a typewriter to take home and work through a touch-typing textbook," Cain said. "I offered for them to bring their typewriter back in to try other models, b ...

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 ...

Education Typewriter Comeback Student use typewriters to complete a writing assignment in German at Cornell University, Friday, March 20, 2026, in Ithaca, N.Y. The professor, Grit Matthias Phelps, ...