They only teach handwriting in kindergarten and 1st grade nowadays? Really? Otherwise, we’re having kids do things on computer keyboards? I guess I’m out of it as far as what is going on in school. It seems we’re losing something that doesn’t need to be lost, if kids don’t learn how to write, not type things.
Remember that friend of Trayvon Martin, who couldn’t read cursive? How will people sign their names in the future; you can’t do that on a computer keyboard. Or will they print their name in block letters as a signature, not do so in cursive?
Engraving used to be a big deal.
I guess all the rug rodents from now on will sign their name with an x if they can even figure that out!
The practice of activating the fine motor skills of a 27 degree-of-freedom manipulator and coordinating them with both visual and conceptual thinking might just have something to do with it. I would suspect that learning drawing skills would go along with it.
Which is why it is unimportant in Common Core.
Handwriting...who knew it would become one of the finer things in life?
If I hadn’t been taught long-hand years ago, I never would have been able to read historical documents at the National Archives, libraries, historical societies, etc.
My handwriting went from bad to worse. Not much lost.
Keyboards are way easier and faster. They have the added advantage of me being able to read what I wrote.
Good grief: I didn’t learn proper cursive until the 3rd grade! In Catholic school. We were too busy learning proper letter forms, spacing, with tense, gender, adjectives and proper nouns for dessert.
I was talking with a young lady at a store recently while I waited for a prescription to be filled and somehow the subject of handwriting came up. I inquired as to whether she (who appeared to be in her very early 20s) had been taught cursive writing in school. No, she said. I asked as how she was able to sign her name when required. She said her mother taught her how.
What a changed world we live in.