Mourning the Death of Handwriting
Source: Time Magazine (8-3-09)
People born after 1980 tend to have a distinctive style of handwriting: a little bit sloppy, a little bit childish and almost never in cursive. The knee-jerk explanation is that computers are responsible for our increasingly illegible scrawl, but Steve Graham, a special-education and literacy professor at Vanderbilt University, says that's not the case.
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I agree, computers have ruined hand writing. We do use the computer, but not much yet, because I think hand writing is important too.
ReplyDeleteIt is very important, but especially with texting now (even i can't figure that out, and i'm 17!) there is very little that's handwritten on a daily basis. I think it was in California where I read that they want to get rid of the regular paper textbooks and use digital!! that's insane! I don't think that'll go over well with residents, though.
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