Posted on 10/12/2006 9:30:33 AM PDT by Clintonfatigued
The computer keyborad helped kill shorthand, and now it's threatening to kill off longhand.
When handwritten essays were intorduced on the SAT exams for the class of 2006, just 15 percent of the 1.5 million students wrote their answers in cursive. The rest? They printed. Block letters.
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We called it "Real Writin'"..........
Another useless lesson is Roman Numerals..............
In yesterday's thread, someone said spelling would be next to go.
(Copy-and-paste is our friend.)
Have enough brandy for winter?
But I can type faster than I can write anyway, and I take my class notes on my lappy, so...
Educaton ping.
Let McVey, JamesP81, or me know if you want on or off this education ping list.
I thought Catholics taught "the Rhythm Method"........
sherry, actually........
"Oooh, what a lucky cursive it was!"
Architecture school killed any use I ever had for cursive. But like a weed, those loopy letters have returned in the form of a draftsman/cursive hybrid that no one but I can read.
There's this wonderful device called a notebook. It needs no batteries and can be transported in a purse, or even in your coat pocket. It never crashes or becomes technologically obsolete. Best of all, you can be equipped with a notebook and pen for under ten dollars. People who haven't tried it don't know what they're missing.
Being left-handed I was never able to master the cursive, nor hand in a pencil written paper that wasn't smudged. I still have ball-point ink from those original ball-point pen inks that never dried on my left hand from dragging across the paper. Naturally I am disappointed at the loss of cursive skills in the general populace. Not.
I'm left-handed too, and had to fight the teachers through the first few grades to keep from being forced to change. I don't think conventional cursive was ever easily mastered by lefties, not to mention the problem of dragging the fist through wet ink.
I've been writing in hand print so long that I can't even remember how to make some letters in cursive. The only thing I ever write in cursive is my autograph, er, signature.
ELP? WOuld make a GREAT ROCK BAND NAME!.........
"unreadable garbage"
That is not the shortcoming of the cursive writing method. It's the poor or non-existent teaching of the cursive form.
If utility was the only criterion by which knowledge and skills were selected to be taught, life would be the drearier for it.
So? You can write your sherry order to a Spanish monk.
I love to go back and look over my lecture notes.
I took notes twice. I would tape the lecture and take notes. At study, I would replay tape and fill in the notes.
Bonus art work too!
My husband would agree with you, since he's a leftie with that problem. Our cards to friends generally read, "Happy birthday, from Linda and Smudge". :)
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