Imitation handwriting artifacts are selling like hotcakes. Is “handwriting addiction” really necessary or is it just formalism?

　　China News Service, Beijing, March 25 (Zhang Yuhui) With a sales of more than 30,000 yuan, a "fake handwriting artifact" has become popular on e-commerce platforms. The robot lifted the pen and moved its "arms". As soon as they fell together, several lines of words written by real people appeared on the paper. An interview with China News Network found that handwriting robots have become an office artifact for some "workers" who struggle to write materials by hand.

　　Experts interviewed said that requiring all types of materials to be handwritten is a typical manifestation of formalism. This will not help solve the problems that assessment supervision is expected to solve, and may even be counterproductive.

Handwriting robot becomes an in-house office artifact

　　In the tutorial video provided by the handwriting robot merchant, the user sets the text content, paper format and font on the computer or mobile phone, and the robot can pick up the pen and write on the paper at a speed of about 150-200 words per minute. There are thousands of fonts in the font library. In addition, users can also enter their own handwriting in the system, and the robot can imitate the user's handwriting to generate "handwritten" documents.

　　On social platforms, you can see many teachers sharing the use of handwriting robots and how to make the words written by the robot more realistic. Some use different fonts to mix and write, and some constantly "feed" their own handwriting to the system to make it more realistic. Pursue a sense of simulation.

　　Middle school teacher Liu Shan has quite a lot of experience using handwriting robots. In her daily work, meeting minutes, teaching lesson plans and other materials often contain 5,000 to 6,000 words each. Preparing lessons and attending classes have taken up her working time, and she feels tired from spending time copying materials by hand.

　　The school stipulates that certain materials must be written by hand, but "there are policies from above and countermeasures from below." Liu Shan thought about it and bought a handwriting robot. It used to take a day or two to copy a material by hand, but now the robot can finish it in a moment. In her opinion, the words written by the robot are not obvious at first glance, but if you look closely, you will find that the strokes are incoherent. Fortunately, "the materials are measured in kilograms, so they were not visible during inspection."

　　But teachers were also checked out. A middle school teacher told China News that during an inspection by the school’s Academic Affairs Office, she was caught using a robot to copy materials. There is a gap between the handwriting imitated by the robot and the handwriting corrected by the robot, but "the key lies in the intensity of inspection."

Grassroots workers call for "freeing your hands"

　　Faced with a 20-page weekly meeting record and daily study notes, grassroots worker Wang Ning and many of her colleagues can no longer do without the handwriting robot she purchased.

　　"The leaders of the unit can see it, but they just turn a blind eye, and they are also opposed to handwriting." She also believes that most materials have no meaning in handwriting.

　　Middle school teacher He Xian said that whether to write by hand should not be generalized and depends on the specific situation. In her daily work, in addition to lecture books, lesson preparation books, meeting minutes, teaching experiences, etc., young teachers also need to handwrite additional lecture observation books. She believes that for young teachers, teaching and research work must be done by themselves, lecture notes should be written by hand, and lesson preparation and other trivial work materials can be in handwritten or electronic form according to personal preference. At the same time, the age span of the teacher group is large, and the ability of older teachers to operate electronic devices must also be considered.

　　"Taking teaching experience as an example, although I did not write it, the content and conception are my own, and that is enough."

　　In the information age, He Xian hopes that some materials can be simplified and archived in electronic form. In her opinion, when a large amount of data needs to be recorded, electronic materials have irreplaceable advantages that human writing cannot match.

Asking "people" to do it for you when writing by hand is behind the drawbacks of formalism.

　　"Requiring all types of materials to be handwritten is a typical manifestation of formalism." Ma Liang, a professor at the School of Public Administration at Renmin University of China, told China News Service.

　　He pointed out that the reason why some departments require this is because grassroots management lacks confidence and skills. They are worried that if handwriting is not required, plagiarism or perfunctory may occur. However, handwriting can also be done by "people", and some machines can also simulate handwriting. Therefore, requiring handwriting will not help solve the problems that assessment supervision hopes to solve, and may even be counterproductive.

　　He also said that too many materials require handwriting, which not only increases the burden on the grassroots and is not conducive to mobilizing the enthusiasm of grassroots cadres, but also increases the amount of materials, which not only increases the difficulties in review, storage, and retrieval, but also makes it difficult to copy. use.

　　"Achieving paperlessness and electronicization will help promote the construction of digital government, reduce the burden on the grassroots, and promote the modernization of government management." Ma Liang said.

　　Chu Zhaohui, a researcher at the Chinese Academy of Educational Sciences, believes that each teacher’s habits and workload are different, and teachers in various regions and subjects are also different. There is no need to divide teachers into which materials should be handwritten and which do not need to be written by hand. Teachers decide based on their own work needs.

　　"Giving decision-making power to teachers and allowing them to be more autonomous in the teaching process, I think is a basic principle for solving problems and a basic way to improve the quality of education and increase educational efficiency," Chu Zhaohui said. (Some interviewees in this article have pseudonyms) (End)