Your dad is right in some cases for pencil and paper, but this is not one of them due to you taking an online class. You can accuse me of showing my age some. Your dad was a teenager when my parents got married.
The teachers I had in High school were are now either dead, late 40s-early 50s, or retired I am mentioning this because most of my high school teachers were born in the late 1930s, or in the 1940s to late 1950s. I did not have a lot of teachers in general that were born in the 1960s or after.
My era was the ending of teaching to type by using a typerwriter. Your dad was a teenager when my parents got married. When I was senior in High school, the High school I went to first had the internet. It was the dial up type modem.
Back when I was in high school, some teachers told me not to use a pencil and paper for doing a report/essay. Those teachers wanted me to type at on word processing program that my computer at home had. Teachers did that to me because of how tough it can be for reading my writing due to my poor hand coordination. They knew I had a computer at home. I had some teachers though that wanted me to use pencil and paper despite my writing. It depended on the teacher. It could've completely changed by now.
