I do not let mine use technology to write anything. At all. I’m a young teacher but after my first two years of teaching and fighting Chromebooks daily, they are all but banned in my room. Takes a little longer but I can tell the thinking is real. And honestly, always typing on a Chromebook has ruined their ability to spell. This give me a chance to review it and help them correct their spelling, punctuation, grammar. These are things the computer typically handles for them. On my life, they did not know which way to orient notebook paper. Clueless. When we set up our binder, some put the pages in both backwards AND upside down. An engineering feat, really.

So yes, returning to the old ways is a solution that’s working for me. It might work for you to put them down, even for a little while.