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College professors are going back to paper exams and handwritten essays to fight students using ChatGPT (www.businessinsider.com)

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College professors are going back to paper exams and handwritten essays to fight students using ChatGPT::The growing number of students using the AI program ChatGPT as a shortcut in their coursework has led some college professors to reconsider their lesson plans for the upcoming fall semester.

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[-] mwguy@infosec.pub 5 points 1 year ago

You'd be so surprised. From my interactions with my younger cousins and in laws, they can't even write in cursive.

[-] dragonflyteaparty@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

As much as I like using cursive, it's not a necessary writing style and wasn't taught to me in elementary. I'm 32, so it's been out of the curriculum here for quite some time.

[-] mwguy@infosec.pub 0 points 1 year ago

If you're going to write, by hand multiple essays in a blue book/exam format throughout a 4-10 year post high school period. You need cursive. It's faster, easier on the wrist and fingers and easier to read.

[-] CaptainPedantic@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

I'm in the weird in between gen z and millennial. I only use cursive to sign my name and read grandma's Christmas card. Frankly, it's not useful for me. I'm glad we spent the time in school taking typing classes instead of cursive.

What is crazy to me is that my youngest cousins (in their early teens) use the hunt and peck method to type. Despite that, they're not super slow. I was absolutely shocked when I found that out. I think it was all the years of using a phone or tablet instead of an actual keyboard that created a habit.

[-] mwguy@infosec.pub 0 points 1 year ago

What is crazy to me is that my youngest cousins (in their early teens) use the hunt and peck method to type.

They don't have typing classes anymore. Crazy I know. But my gen Z relatives do the same thing.

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