After that, there was a conversation in our ELA department where I learned that, apparently, some elementary schools have discontinued teaching cursive. I was shocked. The natural response to writing lettings is curved and connected. The act of writing straight lines and spacing is something that is "taught," so I always thought cursive was a valuable skill to hang onto. In retrospect, I know that I neither require nor prevent my own students from writing in cursive, because so much of the final product is typed anyways.Just curious. Doses your school teach both cursive and keyboard or did keyboard skills replace cursive? What is the impact as kids get older?
http://mobile.bloomberg.com/news/2013-09-17/the-case- against-cursive.html
Is cursive obsolete?
Is the act of writing, handwriting, and any other form of the written word on it's way out?
What did happen to keyboarding? When do kids learn that?
Furthermore, the new PARCC tests are ALL online, even the "writing" - not that we teach to the test, but if we are preparing students for it, how do we continue to make writing (cursive or otherwise) relevant?
