As someone who absolutely would have failed out of higher education if handwriting essays was required, I am begging professors to think about disability accommodation before going all in on combatting generative AI by requiring in-class essay writing by hand.
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Or what about computers with no internet connection?
Just like anyone should consider the degradation of data and our climate every time they think about using a scam made for manipulation to help them.
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I'd trust people to be able to find solutions to the issue, tbh.
Good to raise the issue in general though!
Schools do have processes for this, but they often suck.
He was able to use a controlled lab computer that had DragonNaturallySpeaking (? Not sure if that's the correct program name.)
College kids should find their school's student support office & ask for accomodations!
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Not to mention the extended test time, and I STILL felt like I was being rushed
1. Once disabilities were acknowledged, but before computers, they were allowed to orally answer (or record/talk their essays)—or sometimes were allowed a scribe (they spoke & someone who could quite quickly wrote it out).
2. They were wrongly called dumb and got bad grades.
Agree.
Someone was asking what students did (how they wrote their papers) before computers.
And/but Dictation software isn’t great for everyone though. Some people write/type much better than they can speak (organize speech).
for a week (legibly). You will see that the forced slowness & the extra concentration CHANGES your ability to think, and it changes what you are able to write.