Are Texting, keyboards and touch screens to blame for terrible handwriting?
Thursday, 5 Apr 2018, 18:24
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Edited by Jonathan Vernon, Thursday, 5 Apr 2018, 18:36
It's generational, but those of us brought up with handwriting competitions at school and handwritten essays and the written examination are judgmental of a generation who apparently have terrible handwriting and can't spell.
Do they need to? They can touch type - can you? Faced with a sheet of paper and a pen to write an essay they may struggle to be legible and make spelling mistakes - but how often do they do that, or will they need to that.
Isn't it like complaining in the 8th century that scribes would be rubbish with a chisel putting their words in stone.
The goal is everything - clear communication. Doesn't technology deliver this?
Are Texting, keyboards and touch screens to blame for terrible handwriting?
It's generational, but those of us brought up with handwriting competitions at school and handwritten essays and the written examination are judgmental of a generation who apparently have terrible handwriting and can't spell.
Do they need to? They can touch type - can you? Faced with a sheet of paper and a pen to write an essay they may struggle to be legible and make spelling mistakes - but how often do they do that, or will they need to that.
Isn't it like complaining in the 8th century that scribes would be rubbish with a chisel putting their words in stone.
The goal is everything - clear communication. Doesn't technology deliver this?