We discussed this topic in Professor Tweedie’s class and I really enjoyed it.
There is no doubt that the use of cursive handwriting has decreased tremendously. New technology has come in place of handwriting as a whole. Computers have replaced documents that would have been written and can now be typed. A word document can be written much faster than any handwritten document could be. Letter writing has turned into e-mailing, encyclopedias are now websites, and journals are now blogs. In the classroom situation, new technology could be taught now. Instead of teaching cursive writing, this time could be spent in the computer lab learning typing skills for young students. Technology is progressing so fast these days and young students are our future and they should be learning what they future will be. As a future educator, I am sure that students would be just excited to work on computers as they would to learn cursive. And since cursive is hardly seen anymore, typing should be the focus after learning how to print, instead of just learning another way to handwrite.
