Mark HurstNow THAT's a headline.
"The U.S. spent $30 billion to ditch textbooks for laptops and tablets: The result is the first generation less cognitively capable than their parents"
Cedar Fen Farm
Cedar Fen FarmWriting by hand is critically important to cognitive development. Probably eating ants out of small holes with a honey covered stick serves the same purpose, but we don't do that anymore. We are tool users. Our brains are wired for it.
Joyce Bell 🇺🇦🇨🇦🇲🇽🇬🇱🚫🧊@oldoldcojote @markhurst My step granddaughter attends a Montessori school where they teach kids to write in cursive at an early age. I think it is brilliant!
Eye@joycebell @oldoldcojote @markhurst
This is how we were taught to write (at a normal, state-funded school here in UK). I'll never understand why they stopped teaching it.
Adam Trickett 
@grb090423 @joycebell @oldoldcojote @markhurst cursive handwriting is hard to read and slower than independent letters. It's also a pretty useless skill, compared to other things you could learn to do.
Not saying people shouldn't learn to write, but being able to type properly is more use than copybook cursive handwriting.
Most of what I was taught in school/uni has been directly useless in life but most has been transferable. Cursive handwriting is on the non-transferable list.
@drajt @joycebell @oldoldcojote @markhurst
It helped me write quickly when needed in many jobs I had.
@grb090423 @joycebell @oldoldcojote @markhurst I was told it was faster when in school, but apparently there is little or no evidence to support this but there is evidence to suggest it is actually slower.
Obviously everyone is different, but I almost never took notes at school or university in full cursive handwriting as I found mixed cursive and printing faster to write, and with hindsight easier to read.
After decades of note taking at work I find I almost never use cursive.