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on Wednesday November 02 2016, @08:33AM
from the heading-for-a-new-dark-age dept.
from the heading-for-a-new-dark-age dept.
The New Yorker wonders:
My children know how to print their letters. And they type frighteningly well. Still, I can't escape the conviction that cursive—writing it and knowing how to read it—represents some universal value. I'm not the only one who thinks so. Every year, there are worried articles about the decline of cursive and its omission from school curricula. And there's a backlash, one that I secretly cheer for. When I read that Washington state is now considering Senate Bill 6469, "an act related to requiring that cursive writing be taught in common schools," I gave a little fist pump in the air.
Cursive and handwriting are dead. Communication of the future will be done with pure emoticons.
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(Score: 5, Interesting) by iwoloschin on Wednesday November 02 2016, @10:01AM
So cursive itself might not be incredibly useful anymore, but does the teaching of cursive help with the development of fine motor control? Typing becomes a bit too "digital" (oh my god, so many puns), mostly because the keys never move around, unlike writing which can be quite freeform. I suspect most of the benefits can be achieved with just printed letters, but perhaps cursive does help here? Then it's not so much about the end knowledge gained, it's more about the journey taken and how it helps a young child develop.
(Score: 2) by fido_dogstoyevsky on Wednesday November 02 2016, @12:06PM
...Typing becomes a bit too "digital" (oh my god, so many puns), mostly because the keys never move around, unlike writing which can be quite freeform. I suspect most of the benefits can be achieved with just printed letters, but perhaps cursive does help here?
Printing would be fine from a learning point of view, cursive can be faster and less tiring.
Then it's not so much about the end knowledge gained, it's more about the journey taken and how it helps a young child develop.
Basically yes, see comment 421582 [soylentnews.org].
It's NOT a conspiracy... it's a plot.
(Score: 2) by Grishnakh on Wednesday November 02 2016, @03:41PM
but does the teaching of cursive help with the development of fine motor control?
No more than using print, and probably less.
(Score: 1) by stretch611 on Wednesday November 02 2016, @05:53PM
We now have joysticks and games to learn fine motor control.
Also, fine motor control is learned on web forms when you have to click a checkbox and the $#$%$# dev or designer neglects to allow you to check the box with the associated text.
Now with 5 covid vaccine shots/boosters altering my DNA :P
(Score: 2) by krishnoid on Wednesday November 02 2016, @08:42PM
Not just motor control, but also cross-brain communication between the language center, eye-hand-pencil-paper coordination tactile/motion/friction feedback, and the motor center. I suspect there's more going on here [intechopen.com].