What will happen to cursive penmanship in an age of "21st Century Learning," with kids learning via iPad and having to integrate multimedia through the new Common Core Standards?
It will probably get lost in the tableau of most teacher's days. At one time, I thought that attention on cursive penmanship mattered, but as I watch my own kids using technology with great ease and knowing how critical it will be for them to use computers effectively in school and beyond, cursive writing instruction, I fear, is indeed not a priority.
I explored the idea, along with the fact that my own students for some years now have not been able to read my half-cursive, half-printed script when I hand back assignments.
Here's a link to the piece, one of the currrent commentaries for the paper:
http://www.edweek.org/ew/articles/2012/10/17/08polochanin.h32.html?tkn=LQUFaQG4LlsPKfffj2aHrQiaH3tBws1VYzfb
Sunday, October 21, 2012
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