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by gfodor 1404 days ago
I got an incredible amount of pushback on twitter when I posted that I think we should ditch handwriting in schools in favor of accelerating typing skills earlier.
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My kids are in school right now in the US. They teach cursive for a few days just so kids recognize it but there's no penmanship. They also don't teach spelling because it's not at all useful for developing critical thinking and spelling will evolve on it's own just with reading. COVID definitely accelerated things but lots of homework assignments are done in Google Classroom.

The actual hardest thing to go paperless is math. When they teach strategies and ask to "show your work" there's no easy way to type it.

> The actual hardest thing to go paperless is math.

Reminds me of Tips for Mathematical Handwriting:

https://johnkerl.org/doc/ortho/ortho.html

Yep agree I’m referring to penmanship, they still need to be able to do math and write to the degree necessary for algebra etc.
Rightfully so. People still have to physically write.
Saying “no” is not a persuasive argument.
They do teach how to touch type in schools