Charles HudsonFounder and Managing Partner, Precursor Ventures

Is Education Ditching Tech? Why Handwritten Exams Might Be Coming Back

7 Jun 2025 · 1 min

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Charles Hudson argues that education may move away from technology and return to handwritten exams (essays/blue books) and possibly oral Socratic exams to better measure student learning, reversing a prior trend toward more tech in assessments.

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I think it's ironic. I think we're going to go back to less technology and this is happening in colleges already. Hey, your final is going to be a handwritten. Despite the decline in student handwriting, it's going to be handwritten essays and blue books with no computer. You're going to come in and you're going to have to write without an aid. It's going to be potentially old school Socratic oral examinations. I think people are going to find a way to get back to measuring whether or not you learned. And it's probably going to be different than what it's been in the past, which has been a steady march toward more technology.