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2 HN users recommended this in 2025, in 2 comments.
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2 HN users recommended this in 2025, in 2 comments.
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> Last year, Oklobdzija allowed his class to use laptops for exams so they could type responses and he wouldn’t have to decipher handwriting that looked more like hieroglyphics. He asked them to obey the school’s honor code and made them promise they wouldn’t use ChatGPT. Then one of his teaching assistants took a picture of a student using ChatGPT.
> “So,” he said, “blue books it is.”
A good compromise is the old fashioned, but still being made, typewriter [1] [2].
It is logistically a little more work to allow typewriters on exams because they are noisy. You generally need to separate the people who want to type from the people who want to hand write. A bit of a hassle but should be doable.
[1] https://www.amazon.com/Royal-79101t-Classic-Manual-Typewrite...
[2] https://www.staples.com/royal-consumer-scriptor-electric-typ...
Around? Perhaps.
When I was a kid, I had a typewriter. Was even still possible to buy ink ribbons for it in a local stationary store, not that I could afford them on pocket money, but I've not seen ink ribbons in a stationary store since the early 90s.
Despite that, typewriters are still around: https://www.amazon.com/Royal-79101t-Classic-Manual-Typewrite...