Not only has technology become imperative for us as classroom teachers, but I've been noticing it more and more in my own university classes this semester! It's like all of a sudden all of the profs in the faculty of education have jumped on the technology bandwagon. In 3 out of my 5 classes, we are blogging for marks (not that I mind, but still). This is giving me much-needed experience in something I've never done before.
For me, this poses a question. I realize that technology is the way of the future, but how long do you think it will be before almost all students are coming with a lap top to school instead of pen and paper? Do you think that soon it'll be more important for students to have 100 words per minute than neat and legible printing and handwriting? I'm not sure. If that's the case though, what does this mean for us as teachers? For all you early-elementary teachers, will we stop teaching it? Just a thought...
So... as I'm writing this, my brother walks into the room and asks, "Whatcha doin'?" I told him what I was writing about, and he told me about an article he just read from the Toronto Star (why my 15-year-old brother is reading the Toronto Star from Regina is beyond me, but whatever). Here's the link... it's quite interesting and kind of answers my questions that I posed above. Read it, nonetheless and tell me what you think!
http://www.buffalo.edu/news/pdf/December06/TorontoStarSrihariHandwriting.pdf
Later Gators,
Lindsey
This, my friends, is me!
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That was an interesting article and it makes me wonder if we need cursive writing anymore? Yes, the reason why we taught it in the first place was because it is faster than printing, but it is coming to the point where that is unnecessary? I think that you're right that we will one day get to the point of just having computers in the classroom. However, I still think we will have to teach students how to print. I hope that we will never total get rid of the old school 'pencil and paper' way.
I hope we never get to the point where handwriting is completely obsolete. I think that students need print first and foremost to encourage them to use every part of the writing process. They might be tempted now to edit their work as much if they do not have to put it down on paper first.
Yeah, I agree with everyone! I really hope that the "old fashioned" way of writing will stay in affect. This helps with a child's fine muscle skills. It is awesome yet sad to see that some kids know the keyboard than how to print their name... But, thats enough for now :D
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