Stephen Downes

I view this, authored by Katie Day Good, as good opinion but bad science: "My students' handwritten essays brim with their humanity. Each page conveys personality, craft, voice, and a 'realness' that feels increasingly scarce in our screen-saturated, algorithmically-distorted information environment." I don't see how we could consider assessment based on a teacher's 'feels' as in any way fair or objective. So I support Steven Krause's perspective here. This perspective is just lazy. "That it is both possible and reasonable to make judgements about the writer based on their handwriting, that more of one's humanity is revealed through handwriting... that's just (bad science)." I reiterate my call to make assessment AI-agnostic. If you aren't assessing a student for anything an AI couldn't do, then just what are you assessing a student for? Certainly not their humanity.