• chuckleslord@lemmy.world
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      13 days ago

      More like “people depriving themselves of an actual education made to do simple labor to show they learned something”

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        13 days ago

        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.

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    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?

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      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.

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    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.

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    14 days ago

    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.

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    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.

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      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.