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Many times I get university assignments that are compulsory to be submitted as handwritten document. Most of the information needed for the assignment is availa

Many times I get university assignments that are compulsory to be submitted as handwritten document. Most of the information needed for the assignment is available on the internet so why not save time? Just make a text document and let handwritten.js do the writing part! example: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/alias-rahil/handwritten.js/master/screenshots/lorem-ipsum.jpeg https://raw.githubusercontent.com/alias-rahil/handwritten.js...

galkk 6y ago
This is insane busywork that I hated in college (xUSSR, 20+ years ago). I would scrutinize the example, though. I don't know how "clean" the documents are expected to be, but the picture is too uniform and too clean - no pen marks, etc.
- zxcvbn4038 6y ago
  That is pretty much the US experience also, most of grade and high school was spent copying information from projector slides onto paper. Guess it is an easy way to fill time, read everything off sentence by sentence, wait for everyone to stop writing, cover the sentences not being read so people who fall behind can’t catch up, and speed writers can’t get ahead. I’m very envious of my son, in his classes they distribute the materials via Google drive and spend the class time in discussion and working out problems.
  - _ZeD_ 6y ago
    Writing things down is a known method of studying. I don't envy your son, he should still write to effectively study
    - galkk 6y ago
      In our case it created entire "industry" of rewriting lecture notes by hand (some lecturers required it)
    - xmprt 6y ago
      Is it though? I've heard very often that lecturing in this fashion is the most inefficient way of transmitting information from a slide onto a notebook without being understood by anyone writing it. If you're processing what you're seeing and summarizing then maybe that works but I think what worked best for me was always asking questions about the material.
      - grayhatter 6y ago
        He says known method, not known good method.
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fpgaminer 6y ago
Handwriting machines are popular in China for this reason, from what I've heard.

galkk 6y ago

This is insane busywork that I hated in college (xUSSR, 20+ years ago). I would scrutinize the example, though. I don't know how "clean" the documents are expected to be, but the picture is too uniform and too clean - no pen marks, etc.

zxcvbn4038 6y ago
That is pretty much the US experience also, most of grade and high school was spent copying information from projector slides onto paper. Guess it is an easy way to fill time, read everything off sentence by sentence, wait for everyone to stop writing, cover the sentences not being read so people who fall behind can’t catch up, and speed writers can’t get ahead. I’m very envious of my son, in his classes they distribute the materials via Google drive and spend the class time in discussion and working out problems.
- _ZeD_ 6y ago
  Writing things down is a known method of studying. I don't envy your son, he should still write to effectively study
  - galkk 6y ago
    In our case it created entire "industry" of rewriting lecture notes by hand (some lecturers required it)
  - xmprt 6y ago
    Is it though? I've heard very often that lecturing in this fashion is the most inefficient way of transmitting information from a slide onto a notebook without being understood by anyone writing it. If you're processing what you're seeing and summarizing then maybe that works but I think what worked best for me was always asking questions about the material.
    - grayhatter 6y ago
      He says known method, not known good method.

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fpgaminer 6y ago

Handwriting machines are popular in China for this reason, from what I've heard.