Chanea Bond teaches composition and American literature classes at Southwest High School in the Fort Worth Independent School District in Texas. Bond has banned AI from her classroom; swapping computers for pencils and paper — lots of paper. Nitashia Johnson for NPR
Nitashia Johnson for NPR
Stacks of worksheets sit atop desks and tables in Chanea Bond’s Fort Worth classroom. Her students all have their own school-issued laptops, but Bond has swapped computers for paper — lots of paper.
Each class begins with several minutes of journaling in notebooks, and nearly all assignments must be handwritten and physically turned in.