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
Written by Mike Masnick, Did Pencils Make Us Dumber? is an article concerning the advancement of communication from the quill and ink to the e-mail. Masonic talks about how far we’ve come in finding new ways to talk to each other, and mentions if new technology is helping or hurting us. He brings in a quote by Plato criticizing written word as being impersonal and weakening our memories. However, this was ironically said because the only reason we know Plato said this today, is because it was written down.
In her article Do We Really Need Cursive Writing, Caitlin Carpenter provides readers with content from both viewpoints of whether or not cursive writing should be taught in elementary school. With the rise of computers and technology in the past generation, and larger ratios of class time being spent on preparing for standardized testing, cursive writing has been shoved on the back burner in recent years. Some professors, such as Steve Graham of Vanderbilt University, may argue that the most efficient way for anyone to record their thoughts is at a keyboard. A first grader can only write between nine and 18 letters a minute. Since typing is a slightly easier motor skill, it yields the fastest documentation of thoughts.
Writing received a lot of criticism, especially from Socrates, a Greek philosopher. According to Socrates writing was mnemonic and not interactive. Socrates claims “the ultimate effect of writing will be to weaken memory, not strengthen it” (842). According to Baron “we remember this because Plato wrote it down” (842). Socrates views are very disputable since he claims that writing will weaken the memory, yet we know about him because his student Plato wrote it down.
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and improve literacy rates, cursive lessons take away from other subjects, are not needed in the future, and have been replaced by easier methods.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.
I feel as if reading and writing is not as important as it was back in the day. 10 years we would have to look in the dictionary and know how to read to find the stuff we are looking for. Nowadays, your phone, tablet, or computer can you read you everything you need to know. You can talk to your phone and it can type out whatever you are writing or texting. Back in the day, reading and writing was the thing to know, now people are trying really hard to keep it alive.
Writing in cursive, which uses continuous, flowing characters, is a common way to write more quickly. Cursive handwriting has just been dropped from the required curriculum, despite the fact that handwriting has long been taught in schools. Studies suggest that mastering cursive increases understanding and memory, and many teachers support its selective instruction in classrooms. Despite the teachers' objections, cursive was eliminated from grades K–12. As a result, we must make the most of the chances and skills that learning cursive presents.
Writing wakes up the brain like nothing else. In fact, learning to write in cursive is shown to enhance brain development. Cursive handwriting stimulates the brain, something you can 't get from printing and typing. As a result, the act of writing in cursive leads to increased comprehension and participation. Interestingly, a few years ago, the College Board found that students who wrote in cursive for the essay portion of the SAT scored slightly higher than those who printed.
Why should cursive continue to be taught when print serves the same purpose? But while cursive serves little purpose in today’s schools, print is still a vital part of learning as more than half assignments done in school are still completed on paper. (Source F) So even though technology should be taught more in place of the cursive curriculum, time should still be dedicated to teaching student handwriting as it is still a highly important skill needed in
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.
Have you ever had that weird situation where you needed to sign something but you didn't know cursive, because it was not taught in your school? Cursive really should be taught in schools, but only to a certain degree. Kids should be taught to read cursive and to write their name in cursive, but not how to completely write in cursive. Cursive is faster and neater than normal printing.
Cursive Writing Do you realize that cursive writing is not helping us but torturing us instead? Cursive writing should not be taught because it is becoming less and less popular. It is difficult to read. We have learned it since second grade.
In my own opinion, people should be taught to write in cursive, therefore it should be kept in schools. Cursive may not be very essential in our modern lives, yet it is still an important skill to learn. As stated in paragraph three, studies shows that writing in cursive stimulates both sides of the brain as well as helping in the development of fine motor-skills, which does help us in our average lives whether you notice it or not. Being able to write in cursive allows a person to anticipate further and think quickly, which in turn allows for quicker reaction time, and more brain activity. Of course, as stated in paragraph two of the second article, we all do things digitally.
Cursive writing is still essential, it has very important value. We can't let technology take over education. In my opinion we are becomig slaves of the new technology, that can't be good in any way , technology is making us become lazy. If computers do everything for us than we will be totally useless without them, we are losing work ethic.
Second, cursive helps to reinforce learning because students will learn better when they write down the words, and the words should look professional. As a result, it is more effective for students to learn by writing in cursive than writing in print because cursive writing gives them opportunities to fully comprehend the words, and helps them to remember those words as well. Students who try to learn and write cursive are usually take better notes than students writing print. For example, many students, who are writing in print, do not know how to take an effective note; in other words to say, they do not really know how to organize their notes. Because their writing is not clear on the note, they always have a hard time for studying.
