After yesterday's chaotic search through digital folders, only to find the draft I was looking for handwritten in a notebook, I've returned to longhand drafting. This way, my brain creates using its parts that otherwise hide from the screen glare. It's like another version of me takes over. The story also comes more easily. I've written two drafts of a new story in a couple of hours. A special heatwave bonus: no laptop roasts me while I think.

#AmWriting #draft #handwriting

Old vs new. I’ve bought my first fountain pen in probably over twenty years. I’ve always loved writing with them but I transitioned to writing more digitally in recent times. Now I want to write more by hand again and for this reason I bought a new fountain pen. It’s almost the same as the one I got when I went to school but this time I got it with a left handed nib and an engraving of my chosen name (and legal name since one and a half years) and a very pretty colour called „black purple“. I also got a converter with it to have a better selection of inks.

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#fountainpens #fountainpen #writing #newpen #oldvsnew #handwriting #lamyalstar #lamy #lefthanded

Sorbian proverbs, translated ☺️

💙❤️🤍 Je za wjes škoda z hanibu, hdyž wozmu ćělca za šołtu.

🇩🇪 Dem Dorf wird Schad' und Schande sein, setz man den Stier als Schulzen ein.

🇨🇿 Je to hanba pro ves, když si za rychtáře vezmou cizince.

🇳🇱 Het is een schande voor het dorp wanneer men een vreemdeling tot schout maakt.

#handwriting #fountainpen #sorbian #sorbisch #serbski #dutch #german #deutsch #nederlands #cesky #czech #kaweco #kurrent #sutterlin

The End of Handwriting

I have not handwritten anything since I left college. Till that point we were writing mostly on paper. I did not have beautiful handwriting. I prefer typing to writing. The ideas matter.

📖 Read more: https://sajalchoudhary.net/micro/the-end-of-handwriting/

#ai #education #handwriting

Student #ReadingAbility Spikes After Removing Tech From Class

"Remove all the #distractions and we can get our kids back."

By Frank Landymore
Published Jun 15, 2026

"Would you believe it: a teacher and her students say their reading ability soared after banning tech in the classroom.

"Maureen Mulvaney, an AP Literature and English teacher at Washburn High School in Minneapolis, started the low tech experiment last year after becoming frustrated with plagiarism, distracted students, and plunging literacy rates.

"And so, with the enthusiastic support of parents, she banned phones and laptops, requiring all coursework to be done with pencil and paper. The turnaround was quick and resounding, and despite some initial resistance from students, they quickly fell in love with the old, analog ways of doing things.

"In September, before the experiment started, just 46 percent of Mulvaney’s students said they felt confident about their reading ability. By February, that share shot up to 95 percent.

" 'We’re having a lot of trouble in education and I think what my kids told us was that there is a solution and the solution is to go #LowTech. Go back to the old ways of doing things,' Mulvaney told local TV news station KARE 11. 'Remove all the distractions and we can get our kids back.'

"Mulvaney let her students ease into a tech free environment. First, they started with just ten minutes of silent reading and writing by hand. Still, the first day was 'rough,' she wrote in an essay in The Minnesota Star Tribune. Most students quit after just half a page of longhand composition.

" 'I told the kids this is like lifting weights,' she told KARE 11. 'You don’t go in and you don’t start with 80 pounds.' "

Read more:
https://futurism.com/future-society/students-reading-improves-no-tech-class

#LudditeClub #NoTech #NoPhones #NoAI #Reading #Writing #Humans
#Smartphones are #DumbingUsDown #SolarPunkSunday #Handwriting #NeoLuddites #SmartphoneBan #Longhand