I don't believe that cursive writing is unnecessary. Maybe it's just an old holdout of mine, but I think it's a useful skill. I am an advocate of tactile writing. I personally use a fountain pen and a drafting pencil exclusively, sometimes a Dixon Ticonderoga, and I take most of my notes in either sketchpads or dot notebooks. I prefer to print in pen and write in cursive in pencil, except when signing my name.
There are a couple of reasons for this: 1. There is a different type of connection to your writing. It's like farming or hunting your own food rather than buying it from the grocery store. 2. It's more personal 3. I'm a nerd and fountain pens are cool. I think that as we ask students to write for extended periods of time it's important to have a connection to your work. There are so many fewer distractions on paper than on a screen. It's tiring and frustrating when you make mistakes, which forces corrections to be made by hand. Those amendments to your writing by hand stick with you, just like taking notes on paper. Ok, that all said, we absolutely need to spend more time on word processing skills and document creation because students come to use missing those skills just as much as they are lacking in reading, writing, or math proficiency. Keyboarding skills should be a part of some curriculum!
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