Posted on 02/15/2017 9:41:24 AM PST by Morgana
I’m so glad I did not finish teacher’s ed in college.
what you just said.
There are many sites with help on writing curses &%$#@!!
http://www.wikihow.com/Start-Cursing
Maybe this is better....
https://www.worksheetworks.com/english/writing/handwriting.html
Whatever happened to writing means ‘writing’ and printing means ‘printing’.
There is one interesting problem. I had the experience, in high school, of deciding that I would practice typing by transcribing a magazine article I wanted to read. Two birds with one stone!But then I realized afterward that I had no idea what that article said. None.OTOH, I had the reverse experience - very unusual for me - of feeling unprepared for a high school test. I was feeling panicked, and thought, “for two cents I would make a ‘pony’ and cheat on the test.” And then I immediately thought that if I took the time to create the cheat sheet, by the time I finished I would know enough to be able to easily pass the test anyway. So I didn’t try to cheat, I made the notes I needed and didn’t bother trying to make them concealable.And, just as I expected, I had no difficulty in the actual test.The upshot is that I have a love-hate relationship with penmanship; I positively yearned for the day personal word processing would supplant handwriting - and, OTOH, I keenly feel the difference in how much I remember of what I type vs what I used to write.
Ask most HS students to define cursive writing and they’ll tell you that it is learning the correct spelling of four-letter words!
What you’ve identified is that re-writing is more effective than copying. When you write by hand you normally can’t write fast enough to copy things in a reasonable time so you end up paraphrasing and re-writing to fit space and time needs. This increases memory retention. You can achieve the same effective via typing if you paraphrasing and rewrite is instead of creating a direct copy of the text.
It’s the act of creation that creates memory, not the medium you use to create it in.
Good
#14 but I thought they still taught reading and writing.
The democrats want dumb people high on marijuana.
If they could read history they would find out how much better it was before strangled education and much of everything else.
Because the studies have shown that the learning pathways are more effective when engaged in cursive writing....not printing or typing. It is beneficial
Cursive ...................... NO!!
There are excellent handwriting systems available which are much more legible than cursive.
Getty-Dubay italic (which I taught myself at age 50), elegant and readable.
Barchowsky Fluent which I would have learned had I not come upon the Getty-Dubay method first.
Would you rather read this, or the typical adult's cursive? 
Write the following in cursive, scan it, upload to an image sharing site and post it here on FR.
"My vacuum cleaner is making noises. At first, it was a subtle murmur. But now, it's so loud that it almost causes me to lose consciousness. Sorry, but I must request a refund."
We'll be the judges.....
That’s plausible.
You made the right decision. If you’ve ever doubted yourself over the years, thinking maybe you should have finished those ed classes and gotten a teaching job...rest assured, you did the right thing.
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You act as if civics and debate in this country are completely divorced from the means by which our formative documents were recorded.
They’re not, in my opinion. Language has a profound influence upon thought patterns, this much has been proven. A strong case can be made for the method of creating tangible record of those thoughts. All that’s good about our country and its founding was recorded how?
Cursive.
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It is the eloquence of words...the *verbiage*. It matters not if the Declaration was in braille, all CAPS, type-set printed, etc.
Debate rages on how, which and where those words are layed-out. The meaning of those works do not change w/ the flourish of the pen.
I'm not buying it. Citations please?
Cursive or not, the benefits of writing by hand extend beyond childhood.
I agree that learning to write legibly is an important skill. I disagree that cursive is a good tool for legible handwriting, based on twenty years' experience trying to get physicians and nurses to write clearly.
See the links in my #51 above for what I think works.
Physicians and nurses are under severe time constraints (and you should know that). There writing is hurried and hence not legible to some. They also use commonly accepted (within the medical community) abbreviations that may make it hard for others to understand
Yours is not about a learning situation
https://mobile.nytimes.com/2014/06/03/science/whats-lost-as-handwriting-fades.html
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