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lwhi ◴[21 Oct 24 08:16 UTC] No.41901852[source]▶
It is no longer effective to solely use a written essay to measure how deeply a student comprehends a subject.

AI is here to stay; new methods should be used to assess student performance.

I remember being told at school, that we weren't allowed to use calculators in exams. The line provided by teachers was that we could never rely on having a calculator when we need it most—obviously there's irony associated with having 'calculators' in our pockets 24/7 now.

We need to accept that the world has changed; I only hope that we get to decide how society responds to that change together .. rather than have it forced upon us.

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lm28469 ◴[21 Oct 24 11:11 UTC] No.41902892[source]▶
In France my essays were written in class, no phones, no book, just your brain, a sheet a paper and a pen. That's still 100% doable today
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junaru ◴[21 Oct 24 11:30 UTC] No.41902992[source]▶
It even came with handwriting built in as authentication mechanism! AI detectors hate this secret!

On a more serious note - US removed cursive from their curriculum almost two decades ago - something i cant wrap my head around as cursive is something the rest of the world(?) uses starting in middle school and onwards through the whole adult life.

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ta1243 ◴[21 Oct 24 15:22 UTC] No.41905168{3}[source]▶
Sorry but nobody uses "cursive" writing. People barely write once they leave education - they type. When they do write it's legible separate characters or it's unreadable scrawl.
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TeaBrain ◴[21 Oct 24 17:58 UTC] No.41906612{4}[source]▶
My brother (mid-20s) still writes in cursive. He does so beautifully, completely legibly, and rapidly, at a faster rate than he, or the average person, can write non-cursive.
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ta1243 ◴[21 Oct 24 18:15 UTC] No.41906785{5}[source]▶
What a useful skill for the 160 words a year the average person writes /s
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1. TeaBrain ◴[21 Oct 24 18:32 UTC] No.41906985{6}[source]▶
He's not the average person. His handwriting ability is both an impressive and useful skill, considering that he takes notes in a notebook, and can do so rapidly. Besides, your claim was that "no-one" uses cursive, which I simply was chiming in to point out isn't true.