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ChatGPT is changing the way we write. Here’s how – and why it’s a problem.
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And another thing! Kids these days aren't learning cursive handwriting. It's the death of culture, I tell you.
What school are you in where kids aren't taught cursive?? This is in standard first grade program.
Most schools in the US have replaced this worthless skill.
Along with all the other worthless skills like playing musical instruments or getting exercise
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It had to be the US /s
I am skeptical that this is possible, because you just wouldn't be able to keep up with the necessary speed using non-cursive letters. It is SLOW.
I wonder if there are other more faster methods of writing text down… 🤔
There are keyboards, but usually computers/tablets/phones are banned in class. Our high school did not ban laptops on lessons (it was a very liberal school), but few people used them anyway. Then there are tests, solutions in which can also get too long to quickly write without cursive. Even here, teachers did not accept assigmnents and tests in a typed form, except during remote learning. Not to mention the formulas, which would be troublesome to type out, doubt kids would be fluent in LaTeX.
When I was in school in the early 2000s we just wrote formulas down on the blank bits, after we printed off the rest of the document.
I find it bizarre that someone would refuse to accept a typed document especially because it would probably make it easier to read in the case of students with bad handwriting
Fair, and I guess accepting typed papers is more common in universities. But schools still don't. Mostly because tradition is hard to break, in large part because a lot of people (especially elderly) would find it uncomfortable to read from a screen as opposed to paper. I can relate because I am this way myself))
I work alongside people that went to Cambridge, and even they don't use cursive. No one uses cursive in the real world, it's just this made-up thing you get taught in school just to waste some time.
Respectfully disagree. I myself went for embarrassingly long without knowing English cursive (only knew it for my native language), so I know the difference, and it DOES matter. As soon as most of my reading materials (and thus notes) became English, I had no choice other than to learn cursive, because otherwise writing is painfully slow.
I get what you're saying but you cannot disagree with someone's personal experience.
I am not disagreeing with your experience. I am disagreeing with cursive being a "made-up thing that nobody uses".