bom dia/ boa tarde bluebooks 🫶🏻
October 20, 2024 at 2:57 PM
bom dia/ boa tarde bluebooks 🫶🏻
huh.
you what didn't get hacked? bluebooks, printed essays, grading notebooks, even excel files on my pc for tracking grades.
you what didn't get hacked? bluebooks, printed essays, grading notebooks, even excel files on my pc for tracking grades.
Kind of surprised that this hasn't been bigger news. It's finals week for a whole lot of universities, and yet, Canvas (a learning/grading platform used by ~9,000 schools globally) is currently inaccessible because of a pay-or-have-your-data-leaked hack.
www.insidehighered.com/news/tech-in...
www.insidehighered.com/news/tech-in...
“PAY OR LEAK”: Hackers Target Big Higher Ed Vendor
The criminal extortion group ShinyHunters breached Instructure last week. The hackers, who have also attacked individual universities, demanded the ed-tech giant pay up or face a data leak.
www.insidehighered.com
May 7, 2026 at 9:20 PM
huh.
you what didn't get hacked? bluebooks, printed essays, grading notebooks, even excel files on my pc for tracking grades.
you what didn't get hacked? bluebooks, printed essays, grading notebooks, even excel files on my pc for tracking grades.
I've heard bluebooks are coming back. Current fantasy is a return to fine penmanship.
July 11, 2026 at 2:25 PM
I've heard bluebooks are coming back. Current fantasy is a return to fine penmanship.
Thinking of going fully analog as a response. I hate Canvas. Back to bluebooks baby.
November 29, 2025 at 4:34 AM
Thinking of going fully analog as a response. I hate Canvas. Back to bluebooks baby.
Bluebooks. I've had a pretty good semester by requiring that all writing be done in class.
May 10, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Bluebooks. I've had a pretty good semester by requiring that all writing be done in class.
Citation checking is so critical in brief writing that when I was a paralegal at Covington & Burling, we had like a three day seminar on it.
Nobody bluebooks anymore???
Nobody bluebooks anymore???
hey did anyone else hear about the *Boies Schiller partner* busted for submitting a brief with AI hallucinations? who was busted by counsel for Scientology?
February 24, 2026 at 1:49 PM
Citation checking is so critical in brief writing that when I was a paralegal at Covington & Burling, we had like a three day seminar on it.
Nobody bluebooks anymore???
Nobody bluebooks anymore???
Bring back bluebooks
April 15, 2025 at 3:52 AM
Bring back bluebooks
I genuinely don't want to have to go back to handwritten quizzes and bluebooks in class. I really really fucking don't.
December 12, 2025 at 10:24 PM
I genuinely don't want to have to go back to handwritten quizzes and bluebooks in class. I really really fucking don't.
Post: At some point, we're going to have to make students write in bluebooks using pen to avoid the perils of AI.
Me: At some point, law review editors are going to have to make professors write articles in bluebooks using pen to avoid the perils of AI.
Me: At some point, law review editors are going to have to make professors write articles in bluebooks using pen to avoid the perils of AI.
August 18, 2026 at 4:30 PM
Post: At some point, we're going to have to make students write in bluebooks using pen to avoid the perils of AI.
Me: At some point, law review editors are going to have to make professors write articles in bluebooks using pen to avoid the perils of AI.
Me: At some point, law review editors are going to have to make professors write articles in bluebooks using pen to avoid the perils of AI.
Giving my first exam in years on Thursday in my Colonial/Revolutionary History class. In class writing assignment, bringing bluebooks for them, where they will analyze a primary source for the entire class period.
September 22, 2026 at 6:38 PM
Giving my first exam in years on Thursday in my Colonial/Revolutionary History class. In class writing assignment, bringing bluebooks for them, where they will analyze a primary source for the entire class period.
BlueBooks, physical copies, and notebook assignments this semester not only stopped AI use but also increased class participation and discussion tenfold.
Does anyone else bristle at this framing? WSJ says blue books are “torturing” students with hand cramps, and “nobody likes them.”
Listen, students have been outsourcing everything to AI and cheating their way through college. Blue books should be celebrated as a return to authentic human learning.
Listen, students have been outsourcing everything to AI and cheating their way through college. Blue books should be celebrated as a return to authentic human learning.
They Were Every Student’s Worst Nightmare. Now Blue Books Are Back.
Cheating with ChatGPT has become a huge problem for colleges. The solution is painfully old-school.
www.wsj.com
December 24, 2025 at 7:25 PM
BlueBooks, physical copies, and notebook assignments this semester not only stopped AI use but also increased class participation and discussion tenfold.
Bluebooks or lockdown browser?
December 28, 2025 at 12:16 AM
Bluebooks or lockdown browser?
reintroducing bluebooks is for babies, i’m making my students chisel on stone
May 8, 2025 at 2:33 AM
reintroducing bluebooks is for babies, i’m making my students chisel on stone
My finals are already done (and my university doesn't use canvas) but all of my finals are, in fact, done on physical paper without outside aids.
Bluebooks for history exams (essays), Latin exams are exam papers with sentences and passages and a space to write a translation after each.
Bluebooks for history exams (essays), Latin exams are exam papers with sentences and passages and a space to write a translation after each.
The one professor with a box of bluebooks who keeps all their grades in an Excel spreadsheet
May 8, 2026 at 12:04 AM
My finals are already done (and my university doesn't use canvas) but all of my finals are, in fact, done on physical paper without outside aids.
Bluebooks for history exams (essays), Latin exams are exam papers with sentences and passages and a space to write a translation after each.
Bluebooks for history exams (essays), Latin exams are exam papers with sentences and passages and a space to write a translation after each.
The one professor with a box of bluebooks who keeps all their grades in an Excel spreadsheet
May 7, 2026 at 11:56 PM
The one professor with a box of bluebooks who keeps all their grades in an Excel spreadsheet
I think a lot of people don't really realize this pedagogically: writing, as in prose, will be fine. we taught people how to write for literal millennia without computers. there will be adjustment pains in switching to bluebooks, but it's fine, it's totally fixable. but teaching coding is *fucked*
September 30, 2025 at 3:35 PM
I think a lot of people don't really realize this pedagogically: writing, as in prose, will be fine. we taught people how to write for literal millennia without computers. there will be adjustment pains in switching to bluebooks, but it's fine, it's totally fixable. but teaching coding is *fucked*
“Just do in person” is absolutely going to be a substantial part of the answer, but it is sort of annoying the “just do bluebooks, so simple” thing wrt AI and teaching. like it’s a *lot* more complex than that. a lot of shit the modern classroom relies on will have to totally revamped.
May 7, 2026 at 1:51 AM
“Just do in person” is absolutely going to be a substantial part of the answer, but it is sort of annoying the “just do bluebooks, so simple” thing wrt AI and teaching. like it’s a *lot* more complex than that. a lot of shit the modern classroom relies on will have to totally revamped.
not the point at all but imagine reading entire bluebooks of this.
restricted laptop all the way
restricted laptop all the way
So, I read through the transcription part of the Lash paper again. Again, I am okay with using AI to assist with difficult handwriting samples.
That said. I’m really not convinced that it says “Yankees” after Irish. It looks like Irish Indian to me with missing comma. I’ll chew on that.
HOWEVER:
That said. I’m really not convinced that it says “Yankees” after Irish. It looks like Irish Indian to me with missing comma. I’ll chew on that.
HOWEVER:
December 29, 2025 at 3:57 PM
not the point at all but imagine reading entire bluebooks of this.
restricted laptop all the way
restricted laptop all the way
Break out the bluebooks
July 29, 2026 at 2:12 AM
Break out the bluebooks
my most conservative opinion is that you can't technical-solution your way out of a values problem, and relying on generative AI to do your work is a values problem---not a moral failing, necessarily, just a values problem-that classroom technology bans or reversion to bluebooks won't really solve
May 7, 2025 at 2:48 PM
my most conservative opinion is that you can't technical-solution your way out of a values problem, and relying on generative AI to do your work is a values problem---not a moral failing, necessarily, just a values problem-that classroom technology bans or reversion to bluebooks won't really solve
Bring back bluebooks.
August 17, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Bring back bluebooks.
Then finally there's the matter of financial or structural support for teaching in ways that make AI harder to use (mostly analog stuff). Having more copiers and bluebooks and (gasp!) support for physical materials in the library would all help, and we can creatively think of many more.
October 2, 2026 at 8:14 PM
Then finally there's the matter of financial or structural support for teaching in ways that make AI harder to use (mostly analog stuff). Having more copiers and bluebooks and (gasp!) support for physical materials in the library would all help, and we can creatively think of many more.
As a professor with a cache of bluebooks, I’d humbly request more non-cursive handwriting practice.
Letting our kids be kids also means getting back to the basics. That’s why, earlier this year, I signed into law a bipartisan bill that requires cursive handwriting to be taught in Pennsylvania schools.
March 26, 2026 at 4:02 PM
As a professor with a cache of bluebooks, I’d humbly request more non-cursive handwriting practice.
It’s hard to use Bluebooks in online classes.
August 27, 2025 at 12:25 AM
It’s hard to use Bluebooks in online classes.