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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Trend I notice is that more teachers are doing paper homework/assignments as it is harder to ChatGPT it. For middle school/high school age.[/quote]

This is smart and would give me a lot of faith in those teachers. It kills two birds with one stone -- you reduce the odds that a kid will cheat (it's still possible -- they can use ChatGPT and then write out the response, but it's at least less likely) plus studies show that hand writing homework assignments helps kids actually remember and integrate what they are learning. I'd love to see more of this.[/quote]

of course, they've avoided teaching kids handwriting and a [b]decent number of kids have some form of dysgraphia.[/quote][/b]

This is not true. Dysgraphia is rare. Many kids haven’t learned how to form letters properly.  Once kids are 7 or 8 it is hard to remediate poor handwriting. You need to focus on proper spacing and size versus letter formation. Also, teaching cursive helps.[/quote]

Well I have it and so does my kid, so there’s that.

And I’m surprised at how many people I meet who have had some form of it come back in their kids testing.

Point is, writing can be a lot more of a struggle for some people and typing is easier for almost everybody… it’s one of the few upsides to computers in the classroom. [/quote]

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