Words. Lovely words.
Found this article on Time.com: Mourning the Death of Handwriting
Interesting - I really like one part of the article:
"People born after 1980 tend to have a distinctive style of handwriting: a little bit sloppy, a little bit childish and almost never in cursive. The knee-jerk explanation is that computers are responsible for our increasingly illegible scrawl, but Steve Graham, a special-education and literacy professor at Vanderbilt University, says that's not the case. The simple fact is that kids haven't learned to write neatly because no one has forced them to."
Hmmm...I wonder how true that is? When we were young my friends and I did try to get into the habit of writing in cursive - these were the days of pretty mechanical pencils and multicolored inks so around ages 8-10.
I admit I was trying to copy my mom's lovely script but we all ended up writing in print. As a child I did wonder why is it that people of my parent's generation all pretty much wrote in cursive while my peers and I ended up writing in print almost exclusively.
Also thought this was...worrying: Schools to rethink 'i before e'
The new generation of internet and computer kids...I would really hate to be an English teacher now and in the coming years :) It's either a losing battle or an evolution of the English Language.
Interesting - I really like one part of the article:
"People born after 1980 tend to have a distinctive style of handwriting: a little bit sloppy, a little bit childish and almost never in cursive. The knee-jerk explanation is that computers are responsible for our increasingly illegible scrawl, but Steve Graham, a special-education and literacy professor at Vanderbilt University, says that's not the case. The simple fact is that kids haven't learned to write neatly because no one has forced them to."
Hmmm...I wonder how true that is? When we were young my friends and I did try to get into the habit of writing in cursive - these were the days of pretty mechanical pencils and multicolored inks so around ages 8-10.
I admit I was trying to copy my mom's lovely script but we all ended up writing in print. As a child I did wonder why is it that people of my parent's generation all pretty much wrote in cursive while my peers and I ended up writing in print almost exclusively.
Also thought this was...worrying: Schools to rethink 'i before e'
The new generation of internet and computer kids...I would really hate to be an English teacher now and in the coming years :) It's either a losing battle or an evolution of the English Language.