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let's see you write out complex equations with equal facility.
I explicitly mentioned in my comment that this is where I switch to paper.
sorry missed that.
Is Handwriting History?
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This isn't the first time I've said this, but I believe doing serious genealogy will 'cure' most people of their love of cursive, and maybe writing things by hand in general. You get better at reading it, but there is much more bad handwriting out there than good.
I harp on and on about this, but the looped cursive of the 19th and 20th centuries is horrible for legibility. Many of the common letterforms blur together, especially when written quickly. There were reasons for adopting it at the time, but it really shouldn't be taught anymore. Today we should be teaching cursive italic, for several reasons (legibility, ease of teaching).
I think as you do on this matter. I wish I knew how to get in touch with you. Meanwhile, there’s always the Society for Italic Handwriting, to shic( I belong: italic-handwriting.org
Kate Gladstone CEO, HandwritingThatWorks.com DIRECTOR, the World Handwriting Contest handwritingrepair@gmail.com
Re: Is Handwriting History?
#63Earlier quoted context omitted.
This isn't the first time I've said this, but I believe doing serious genealogy will 'cure' most people of their love of cursive, and maybe writing things by hand in general. You get better at reading it, but there is much more bad handwriting out there than good.
I harp on and on about this, but the looped cursive of the 19th and 20th centuries is horrible for legibility. Many of the common letterforms blur together, especially when written quickly. There were reasons for adopting it at the time, but it really shouldn't be taught anymore. Today we should be teaching cursive italic, for several reasons (legibility, ease of teaching).
I think as you do on this matter.
I wish I knew how to get in touch with you.
Meanwhile, there’s always the Society for Italic Handwriting, to which I belong: italic-handwriting.org
Kate Gladstone CEO, HandwritingThatWorks.com DIRECTOR, the World Handwriting Contest handwritingrepair@gmail.com
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#64I always carry a pen. I prefer handwriting to taking electronic notes and have never found a touch device I'd rather write on than paper. Aside: Teaching kids cursive also still has value in teaching fine motor skills.
I’ve never seen evidence that cursive has more value, in that regard, than any of the other forms of our handwriting. Studies I seen cited on the matter — when I looked up th3 originak studies, not merely the second- and third- and fourth-hand reportage in the news and social media — turned ou5 to support cursive over any of the other ways we write by hand.
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#65I always carry a pen. I prefer handwriting to taking electronic notes and have never found a touch device I'd rather write on than paper. Aside: Teaching kids cursive also still has value in teaching fine motor skills.
> Aside: Teaching kids cursive also still has value in teaching fine motor skills. IMO, it's the most important thing, we have to teach fine motor skills very early to little humans if we want them to be full humans.
Declaring that some human beings are not “full humans” is a very bad idea.
Re: Is Handwriting History?
#66I always carry a pen. I prefer handwriting to taking electronic notes and have never found a touch device I'd rather write on than paper. Aside: Teaching kids cursive also still has value in teaching fine motor skills.
> Aside: Teaching kids cursive also still has value in teaching fine motor skills. It's also been shown to be helpful for students with dyslexia.
The studies which I’ve seen cited as proving that turned out, when I checked the actual citations, not to have proven it. Two examples of research showing cursive's lack of observable benefit for students with dyslexia/dysgraphia:
"Does cursive handwriting have an impact on the reading and spelling performance of children with dyslexic dysgraphia: A quasi-experimental study." Authors: Lorene Ann Nalpon & Noel Kok Hwee Chia — URL: http://www.researchgate.net/publication/234451547_Does_cursi...
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Re: Is Handwriting History?
#67I recently got a tablet for use as a home entertainment controller and newspaper and the first thing I wanted was a pen or a stylus with the tactile feedback of a pen. My cursive is far from Declaration of Independence level but as a personal project I've been practicing and it's remarkable how fast writing anything becomes. I'd go so far as the argue children should be taught cursive first and then learn to recogniz…
Such an app exists, for the iPad and (as I recall) the iPhone; its called WritePad Pro.
Re: Is Handwriting History?
#68I recently got a tablet for use as a home entertainment controller and newspaper and the first thing I wanted was a pen or a stylus with the tactile feedback of a pen. My cursive is far from Declaration of Independence level but as a personal project I've been practicing and it's remarkable how fast writing anything becomes. I'd go so far as the argue children should be taught cursive first and then learn to recogniz…
Such an app exists, for the iPad and (as I recall) the iPhone; its called WritePad Pro.
Thanks for the tip. I'm using Android, unfortunately, but I'm sure I can find an equivalent with some google-fu and WritePad as a keyword.