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When I was at school I seem to remember that we weren't allowed to use computers for most homework in order to encourage developing handwriting skills etc... N
by rlivsey 17y ago
When I was at school I seem to remember that we weren't allowed to use computers for most homework in order to encourage developing handwriting skills etc...
Not that it helped, my handwriting is atrocious! That's mainly because in the past 10 years or so I've hardly written a thing which wasn't meant to be read by anyone other than myself.
- lsc 17y agoyeah, me to. I wonder what I would have been able to achieve if I did something useful during the handwriting drills that ate 4-8 hours of my week. hell, after all that work, at this point, I can't even read my own handwriting.
- sshumaker 17y agoI can do better. My third grade teacher was a lovely woman but very old-fashioned, and at the time very few people had a personal computer. When I handed in my first paper, typed up using a word-processing program, she refused to accept it. Why? Because she was convinced "the computer wrote the paper for me." I tried to explain to her that computers as portrayed by the media (this was 1985) and computers in fact were quite different, but she was firm. So I spent the rest of the semester typing up my papers and then re-copying them by hand to hand in. It's funny to think that twenty five years later, the computer STILL can't write my papers.