With the prevalence of AI cheating, will schools start teaching cursive writing again?

[Betonhaus]

With it being super easy to fake an essay with AI, we might see a push towards hand written assignments to ensure that the essays and homework were actually written by the students. If that's the case, could we see cursive writing returning to the curriculum? And could we start having more hand written documents and letters when authenticity is desired?

 

[オプセック]

With it being super easy to fake an essay with AI, we might see a push towards hand written assignments to ensure that the essays and homework were actually written by the students. If that's the case, could we see cursive writing returning to the curriculum? And could we start having more hand written documents and letters when authenticity is desired?

Uh, pill me on kids not learning to hand-write, pls. I heard this a few times by now and even witnessed young people struggling, but how in the fuck is "cursive" even it's own thing like history or math? Why the hell would you not teach kids how to write with their hands? How long has this been happening?
Also: yes, rainbow me.

 

[i440BX]

I was surprised when I found out US doesnt teach cursive.
Cursive writing is useful for writing fast. It would be difficult for me to have interrupts for every letter.

 

[Betonhaus]

I was surprised when I found out US doesnt teach cursive.
Cursive writing is useful for writing fast. It would be difficult for me to have interrupts for every letter.

Once computers came out nobody taught cursive as it was assumed you would type everything up.

 

[User names must be unique]

But then how are the teachers going to use an AI to grade it?

 

[The Crack Spiders Bitch]

Once computers came out nobody taught cursive as it was assumed you would type everything up.

I learned cursive and we had computers at my school.

 

[Betonhaus]

But then how are the teachers going to use an AI to grade it?

That's the neat thing, teachers will have to be educated.

 

[Betonhaus]

I learned cursive and we had computers at my school.

Was it a private school or a Jew school?

 

[Whatevermancer]

What kind of cheating do you want to prevent by teaching kids cursive? Them using AI to write essays or reports? But even before AI kids would just download essays off the internet, and even if you didn't have internet, you could buy a book with pre-written essays at a bookstore.
It worked quite well, since the topics mostly stayed the same and require you to analyze a work of literature(e.g. "Juxtaposition of Raskolnikov and Svidrigailov in Crime and Punishment") and teachers didn't use a plagiarism check cause they weren't technologically savvy enough, and even if they were, back then OCR wasn't that good even for printed text, I assume recognizing cursive would've been practically impossible.
So yeah, I don't think cursive is gonna help deal with cheating.

 

[The Crack Spiders Bitch]

Was it a private school or a Jew school?

Australian school.
So you know, retarded and full of spiders

 

[Betonhaus]

Australian school.
So you know, retarded and full of spiders

Did you have a pet hunter spider?

 

[rel=alternate]

I am not sure it matters really.

Schools are over rated anyway these days. I'd rather hire someone who can use AI perfectly than some tard who knows every president and can do a Google search to vaguely figure out what I am asking for.

You see people coming out of school knowing barely anything worthwhile more often than the contrary. So many years wasted paying to learn bullshit at a snail's pace.

I could not care less how they address this issue. It's a corporate issue for the college because it exposes them as worthless, not an education issue.

ETA : on the topic of cursive. I rediscovered writing a few years back, after years of not practicing. I write every day since then. There is something soothing and valuable about sitting down to think and write about things. It's like self reflection without having to try. If you're someone impulsive, it's really good therapy in the work place too.

 

[WelperHelper99]

They taught cursive at my elementary school. My handwriting got worse. Let it stay dead. It's fucking gay.

 

[The Crack Spiders Bitch]

Did you have a pet hunter spider?

A huntsman?
Yeah, his name was Gazza and he was the size of a dinner plate.
He lived in the big gum tree until dad accidentally hit him with the lawn mower.

 

[David Brown]

Not a chance. Teachers already use AI to grade papers and they are lazy as fuck and won't tolerate being forced to actually do their jobs again. I'm not kidding

 

[Trump's Chosen]

Yes, I'm sure cursive is too arcane for AI to learn. And if anything just adds an extra step to making AI write your work for you.

 

[JohnnyG]

could we see cursive writing returning to the curriculum? And could we start having more hand written documents and letters when authenticity is desired?

pill me on kids not learning to hand-write

Cursive is still taught in some schools, but zero inner city ones. Despite insane levels of funding (pick a major city, but DC/NJ/NY/Detroit/Chicago are all spending like $24-30k/year per student, vs. a national average of like $12k), about half of students in those schools basically can't read or write at all, with the remainder barely able to print their names.

Teaching and requiring cursive would be a massive step forward, but if you can't even mandate basic math & literacy skills (because the half of inner city students who currently "graduate" would mostly not), you would certainly see teachers unions chimping out and JCLU lawyers descending if you tried to mandate it.

And using it to catch cheating would also be verboten, because of the "disparate impact" it would have on...those who rampantly cheat.

 

[オプセック]

What kind of cheating do you want to prevent by teaching kids cursive? Them using AI to write essays or reports? But even before AI kids would just download essays off the internet, and even if you didn't have internet, you could buy a book with pre-written essays at a bookstore.
It worked quite well, since the topics mostly stayed the same and require you to analyze a work of literature(e.g. "Juxtaposition of Raskolnikov and Svidrigailov in Crime and Punishment") and teachers didn't use a plagiarism check cause they weren't technologically savvy enough, and even if they were, back then OCR wasn't that good even for printed text, I assume recognizing cursive would've been practically impossible.
So yeah, I don't think cursive is gonna help deal with cheating.

I guess the point of it is that you might as well write it on your own, if you have to copy it anyhow. At least the smart ones for whom the extra time it takes to come up with their own high school tier garbage is negligible, get a bit more exercise out of it.

 

[el bandito loco]

my whole life I've always been complimented on my cursive handwriting, but my print looks like someone with cerebral palsy wrote it. so, I've only wrote in cursive almost exclusively since I was probably 11 or 12. it has become increasingly apparent to me, most people are retarded because they can't read cursive. half of the time, if I leave someone a note they always ask me what the fuck it said. It's not like the letters are that different looking, most of them look exactly the same. some people's cursive takes a bit of looking at, because it's kind of sloppy or has specific quirks but most of it is pretty uniform. I lent a guy a book one time and it had sections that were diary entries in printed cursive and he returned it to me and was like yeah I got there and couldn't read any further, I felt like I was missing half the book. he was, but I was like how the fuck? It blows my mind people can be so puzzled by it when they can read print just fine. particularly an instance like that where it was printed in the book totally standard and without any flourishes an actual person might have.

my point is, I doubt half of today's teachers could read it to grade it.

 

[Meth Dick]

In elementary school when I learned cursive I was so happy, I wrote it all the time, working on my handwriting. I thought writing in cursive was the coolest thing ever. Then into high school, I thought it was kinda lame/I was too cool for it, and it wasn't mandatory anymore, so I want back to basic.
now about a decade later I write in cursive all the time because it fills me with a sick joy when I see the younger kids fresh out of high school struggling to read my impeccable cursive.