Time to bring the typewriter to the exam.
this post was submitted on 18 Jun 2025
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"I'll take your noisiest model my good sir!"
I kid you not. I genuinely brought this model of typewriter a uni exam once(mostly to make my point with a professor). With my wpm it sounded like a machine gun, and it was glorious.
RIP, my ass tends to grip the pencil too hard or smth, and I often cramp up my hand when writing a lot. I had to write paper notes for a class, and another professor made our final exam on paper where you write about 10 terms and do 2 mini essays on a topic.
I really don't wanna do paper, simply because of how annoying it is (smudge marks, misspelled words, running out of space, having to erase a lot of stuff cause you feel it looks wrong, etc.). Honestly, unless a teacher watches students write their entire assignment in class with no technology out, what's to stop them from just copying down what ChatGPT wrote for them onto paper?
Article says the teacher is using handwriting for in class assignments. I suppose you could hide your phone and copy answers from that but at that point your back to regular cheating.
I always hated handwriting in school because my hand also cramps easily. I've heard the proper way to write is using arm motions. Makes sense to me because my writing is all using my wrist with my hand crab clawed around a pencil.
Lol, when more and more kids don't learn how to handwrite.
I was watching that dude's video that sailed from Oregon to Hawaii with his cat, and he got a care package via helicopter from someone n he couldn't read the note because it was in cursive. Like I know we don't teach cursive anymore, but l feel like it's close enough to figure it out for reading. It really blew my mind that a 20 something year old couldn't read something written in English.
To be fair, I’m old enough to have been taught cursive, I can read cursive, but it’s a pain in the ass to do so and even correct cursive can sometimes take serious effort to decipher— then you get into potentially messy cursive which is an order of magnitude worse. Cursive was made to be fast to write, not easy to read, and this just isn’t something that’s really needed much anymore. Writing things that aren’t meant to be read just seems entirely counter to how we do things these days.
Not that I hate cursive per se, or think that no one should learn it. It does teach good fine motor skills, it also teaches good letter flow and stroke order which can make deciphering even print handwriting easier, not to mention it can look cool and develop your signature better.
But I do hate trying to read cursive in those rare instances that someone writes something long in it, like a letter. I feel like it’s obnoxious, bordering on disrespectful.
Man… that’s a cultural shift from even just a half century ago…
I'm all for it.
When the data centers force widespread blackouts, people will still be able to hand-write their complaints. Should also bring back the wax seal and the signet ring for two-factor authentication.
I prefer this way personally. I've always asked if I could write things with a pen rather than type them on a computer. Unless they want me to use a ballpoint and press harder because CC paper.
What is stopping someone from simply writing down by hand what an AI has generated for them? Are they done in class, in view of the professor?
This sounds cool in theory, but it requires updating all the courses to match the pace of hand writing. All the courses these days are tailored to break neck pace of computer typing, so much so that you are even forced to use shorhand in some cases to be able to keep up.