Aw, honey

[checkers65477]

Conversation with a student this week:

Me: ...so, if you want to put a reserve on a book, you just write the title and your name here, and we'll let you know when the book is ready for you to pick up.
Student:  *writes*
Student, looks up at me, eyebrow raised: You can read cursive, can't you?

I assured him that not only can I read cursive, I can actually write it, too.

F-list--can you???

Comments

[checkers65477.livejournal.com]

I think that's what the kids are finding, too. Fast typing is important, fast writing not so much. It seems, too, that it's easy to get rusty at writing well in cursive.

[aged-crone.livejournal.com]

What I found interesting in an article I read (don't remember which one) was that they discovered that children who practiced handwriting so they were good at it (as opposed to practicing typing) actually wrote more and better (content, not writing) than those who typed things into the computer.