Not during class. Most likely a proctored exam. No laptops, no phones, teacher or proctor watching.

Sounds like effort, I’m making a font out of my handwriting and getting a 3d printer to write it

Only if you memorize it. In which case, why not just memorize the test material?

My first thought was exactly this.

And forget about having any sort of integrity or explaining to kids why it’s important for them to know how to do shit themselves instead of being wholly dependent on corporate proprietary software whose accessibility can and will be manipulated to serve the ruling class on a whim 🤦

Good luck doing one on one assessments in a uni course of 300+

Covid forced the transition to electronic exams in many areas.

The university I went to explicitly did in person written exams for pretty much all exams specifically for anti-cheating (even before the age of ChatGPT). Assignments would use computers and whatnot, but the only way to reliably prevent cheating is to force people to write the exams in carefully controlled settings.

Honestly, probably could have still used computers in controlled settings, but pencil and paper is just simpler and easier to secure.

One annoying thing is that this meant they also usually viewed assignments as untrusted and thus not worth much of the grade. You’d end up with assignments taking dozens of hours but only worth, say, 15% of your final grade. So practically all your grade is on a couple of big, stressful exams. A common breakdown I had was like 15% assignments, 15% midterm, and 70% final exam.

Norway has been pushing digital exams for quite a few years, to the point where high school exams went to shit for lots of people this year because the system went down and they had no backup (who woulda thought?). In at least some universities most of or all exams have been digital for a couple years.

I think this is largely a bad idea, especially on engineering exams, or any exam where you need to draw/sketch or write equations. For purely textual exams, it’s fine. This has also lead to much more multiple-choice or otherwise automatically corrected questions, which the universities explicitly state is a way of cutting costs. I think that’s terrible, nothing at university level should be reduced to a multiple choice question. They should be forbidden.

Same in Germany

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You’d be surprised. My daughter (13) has better penmanship than I do (46). Although I’m sure my left-handedness doesn’t help there.

Millennial here, haven’t had to seriously write out anything consistently in decades at this point. There’s no way their handwriting can be worse than mine and still be legible lol.

AI was never about making our lives easier. It’s been a corporate tool out of the gate.

But this kind of thing really should be handled by Washington, and maybe it would be if we had a functional Congress. Make it illegal for AI companies to sell their services to people for the purpose of cheating or impersonation.

You became the smartest kid because everyone else had a stroke trying to read what you wrote.

Universities have accomodation systems for issues like this. People with disabilities can go to the accomodations office and get what they need to be able to do the work

Big brain