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I've heard some schools are reintroducing it now, but that doesn't help those that never learned.
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I think it should still be taught, but maybe just do it in a higher grade and don't treat it as an important lesson.
It's honestly something where you can learn 95% of it just by seeing it over and over again.
But why learn it at all? There are a lot of useful things that could be taught in schools but aren’t. Why should cursive have a spot?
The cognitive impacts of handwriting vs typing are actually pretty major especially for cursive. Handwriting does things to your mind that typing just doesn’t do nearly as well.
Not sure that means cursive needs to be taught in school, I don’t feel that strongly on it either way, but handwriting is easy to dismiss as an outdated method of recording information without realizing the greater value it has as a generative thinking process that facilitates mental plasticity.
We haven’t figured out how to replicate that power yet with keyboards and computers. I imagine eink tablets with styluses do a similar thing to the brain but that is still handwriting just on a digital screen.
It makes me sad sometimes that a lot of adults I know will just laugh at the idea of using a pen and paper to handwrite something and totally miss the point that handwriting things is only tangentially about recording information.
In that case we should learn tachygraphy/stenography, that would be a game changer for note taking.