Educational Technology

May 25, 2011

Fading into a memory: Cursive becomes lost art with advancements in new technology

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by Eliza Chan, Western Front

Teachers and educational administrators are deciding cursive is a less important part of the curriculum than learning to read and use 21st century digital tools to communicate, said Joanne Carney, associate professor of elementary education at Western. She said students must learn computer skills to communicate effectively. In one of Carney’s graduate courses on literacy, she discovered that her students felt the same way about how cursive is presently taught. “Cursive is taught for limited time periods in one or two grades,” Carney said. “Most students don’t practice it enough to develop good handwriting.”

http://westernfrontonline.net/features/15-features/13493-fading-into-a-memory-cursive-becomes-lost-art-with-increases-in-new-technology

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