In my opinion, I believe schools should continue to teach cursive. Cursive is and will be a lifelong skill, it can help lots of people, and help train our minds. First of all, cursive will be needed as a lifelong skill. Although technology is taking over the world and we no longer need our signature to identify us, it will still be needed. According to “ Baltimore Sun”, Joel Sher, a lawyer said that when he sorts paper, he no longer needs to sign his name because it is
Michaela Cullington, author of “Does Texting Affect Writing,” declares texting does not affect students writing. Cullington uses facts to support her overall claim, and gets many teachers’ opinions on the subject. The author did not use valuable sources, which questioned her overall purpose. Cullington used a lot of her own opinion throughout the text, but lacked supporting facts. The story has many flaws, making Cullington argument on how texting is not affecting students writing, not reliable.
In her essay "Does Texting Affect Writing?", Michaela Cullington presents her argument that texting does not impact formal writing written by students. She discusses the concerns presented by many people about how texting language can transfer into writing, but through the use of personal experiences and credible sources she discusses how this is not true. Her use of multiple different studies and situations help boost her argument and allow the reader to truly see how students actually do formal writing. She presents a strong argument as to why those who believe students don't have the control and knowledge to write formally, instead of with text speak, are wrong.
Do you want part of your education taken away? If you don 't then listen to the reasons why the school board should keep our Chromebooks. I think that Chromebooks should be allowed in Elementary schools because kids doesn 't have to waste paper and pencils. Also the parents and teachers do not have to buy ten to twenty textbooks for each class, and some textbooks are heavy for some students. My second reason is it is very easy to use, Wherever you go, there is going to be Wi-fi to connect to you 're Chromebook.
This, along with her own anecdotal experience, lead her to the conclusion that texting is not something to be afraid of by teachers because it does not harm students' writing abilities. The abbreviations have the purpose of speeding up the process of typing, and as long as expecatations about writing assignments are clear there would be no
All of these factors combine and work well together to form a well-executed argument within Cullington’s essay. Cullington begins her essay by addressing her opposition: “It’s taking over our lives” (pg. 361). She cites studies done that suggest that a decline in the quality of students’ formal writing has occurred since the advent of text messaging, and she also cites teachers who believe that their own students’ works are influenced for the worse by the students’ being accustomed to texting and using textspeak. Cullington then proposes her opposing position that the writing of students is unaffected by their use of texting and text speak. She also cites studies that support her thesis that text messaging and textspeak do not have an effect on
From carrier pigeons, to signing legal documents. Handwriting lessons in school have been a widely debated topic for a while. Although cursive classes do allow students to read cursive and improve literacy rates, cursive lessons take away from other subjects, are not needed in the future, and have been replaced by easier methods. Therefore cursive lessons are not beneficial.
Criminal Profiling Paul Bernardo was born in Scarborough (in Ontario Canada) in 1964. He was the youngest of three kids. His father was charged with a life sentence for peeping and pedophilia and was abusive to the family as well as molesting Paul's sister. His mom was depressed and eventually moved into the basement. Paul as a kid seemed unaware of his broken family and was reported as a happy child, but also had an irresistible urge to start fires while he was a Boy Scout at ten years old.
Though the world is becoming dependent on technology, are we becoming overly dependent? Cursive writing is an important writing skill that should be taught in schools, that is on the edge of becoming extinct. At least 41 states in the United States don’t require public schools to teach cursive anymore. This will greatly affect students because not everything is capable of being done on the computer. Even though technology is a great agricultural advancement cursive writing is still a beneficial tool to be taught and not overlooked.
Not So Fast”, conducts her own study with a few colleagues to take notes on how students writing skills are changing. She decides to conduct another one twenty five years later to see how much the writing skills have changed since technology has been updated and became more available to students. She found that “students today are writing more than ever before.” Although we still have the same amount of writing errors as before, the patterns of errors are different. Many people argue that technology is only making our writing skill worse, this study helps to prove a different theory.
Studies show that people who write in cursive have more active brains, than those who do not. In the future kids will need cursive to sign important documents. There is a good way to save class time and only teach what is necessary in cursive and schools should try this out. The plan is whenever they have to write their name at the top of a paper is to make them write it in cursive. Then when the teacher needs to write a response she should write it in cursive, that way the kids have to learn to read cursive.
People who are left-handed have been shunned for many years in numerous amount of diverse, sundry cultures. They make up a small number on Earth and are considered the minority compared to right-handed human beings. ” Roughly ten percent of the population” claimed status as left-handed (“Left Handedness” 1). The ten percent of this specific group demonstrate great capabilities, but, unfortunately, are not seen as a gifted category according to the public. Views changed over time, but until this day, the minority depicts lefthanders as “...real signs of the devil” (“Left Handedness” 1).
Introduction and Outline This essay’s purpose is to highlight how school curriculum is altered in order to include a student with additional learning needs. Every student is unique and for that reason a teacher must differentiate the curriculum to suit the needs of student with a specific learning difficulty. Dyslexia is the learning difficulty which will be examined theoretically and methodically in this essay. This essay will examine the different learning theories of how to engage a child with dyslexia in the classroom.
According to Cindi May from Scientific American, handwriting is the best way to go. Her evidence for this is that a recent test performed by scientists named Pam Mueller and Oppenheimer shows that handwriting is better for comprehending or learning the material. They say that handwriting requires different types of cognitive processing that require you to hear and concentrate on the information that teachers and professors give you, just like a lecture. On the other hand, handwriting is slow and cumbersome which is why many schools are not using it as much as back then since we are going into an age of new technologies. According to Anne Trubek from the MIT Technology Review says that typing
Imagine you have a class where the teacher doesn’t take up homework, classwork or test grades. Instead everyone in your class has to do one big project and an oral presentation that is due at the end of the semester. That one grade for your project is your final grade at the end no matter what. There are no retakes if you don’t do well and you are depending on that grade to help you get into a good college. This one single grade could make you or break you.
