OT: Cursive?

"Indiana will join 48 other states this academic year in implementing the Common Core State Standards Initiative, which requires teachers to give lessons on keyboarding instead of cursive handwriting."

Why should they teach a dead from of communication.

My doctor never learned it. ;-)

After nearly 40 years of using keyboards my handwriting looks like a 6 year old's.

Sew thaa cann use the rite wurds like yew.

Keyboarding?!? Is that like waterboarding but using keys?

Whatever happened to typing as a verb???

Seems a shame to eliminate basic handwriting as a skill. Learning to write the English language is relatively easy in western alphabets. And calligraphy still has it's uses as training in hand eye coordination.

Learning kanji is way harder with about 2000 as a bare minimum for functional literacy and the stroke order of drawing them matters. To use a kanji dictionary successfully you have to be able to spot the word root and the number of strokes to draw the whole character.

Regards, Martin Brown

Someday those touch screens will recognize cursive. Why waste the space on thumb typing keyboards?

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It became 'keyboarding' when us guys started doing it.

Women now 'escape into fantasy' while men 'interface with virtual people'.

:)

--Winston

Kinda like "dolls" and "action figures"?

Yup.

--Winston