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> to build daily reading habits among a phone-first population Reading is fundamental. EDIT: Other skills and habits that you can then build on reading: criti

> to build daily reading habits among a phone-first population Reading is fundamental. EDIT: Other skills and habits that you can then build on reading: critical thinking, reasoning, detection and handling own biases, numeracy, financial literacy, and more. All these dimensions are manipulated via phones and the apps on them, so you need a firewall. Also: writing. Cursive writing.

aduwah 6d ago
You being downvoted is just sad
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- xethos 6d ago
  Stating a truth is not adding to the conversation though. A little sad, sure, but grandparent's comment is barely even a building block to kick off a wider conversation, let alone thoughtful or additive on its own. Maybe it doesn't deserve to be on the bottom, dead, but something this basic certainly doesn't deserve to be showered in upvotes
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Viliam1234 6d ago
> Cursive writing. Is there anything useful about cursive writing? Other than it being positively correlated with many good things because education is the common topic?
- homarp 6d ago
  https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-athletes-way/202010/why-cursive-handwriting-is-good-your-brain https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-athletes-way/202... note that at least "Handwriting but not typewriting leads to widespread brain connectivity: a high-density EEG study with implications for the classroom" is critized - https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychology/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2024.1517235/full https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychology/articles/10....
  - 201984 6d ago
    Is there any evidence that handwriting in cursive is better than handwriting normally? The Van der Meer study only compared cursive to typing or drawing, not handwriting. It's rather suspicious to leave normal handwriting out of the study, and makes me suspect bad faith.
    - hdgvhicv 5d ago
      Anecdotally my kids wrote a fair bit before they were forced to do “joined up writing”. Since then they have stopped almost entirely and what little they do write is far less legible than before. If there is one thing I would ban from education it’s this 17th century torture device.
      - basisword 5d ago
        How does this work? In school if they’re forced to write in cursive surely they still have to write the same amount? And if it’s writing in their spare time that has reduced they can write non-cursive so that shouldn’t be a blocker.
        hdgvhicv 5d ago
        Once they hit year 6 or 7 (about 10-12) all bets are off My eldest son was so damaged by the cult of obsolete writing that he has to do everything on computer now, including exams. His writing before was neat and fast.
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    - ninalanyon 5d ago
      > evidence that handwriting in cursive is better than handwriting normally? Perhaps I'm too old for this conversation but surely cursive is writing normally?
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aduwah 6d ago

You being downvoted is just sad

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xethos 6d ago
Stating a truth is not adding to the conversation though. A little sad, sure, but grandparent's comment is barely even a building block to kick off a wider conversation, let alone thoughtful or additive on its own. Maybe it doesn't deserve to be on the bottom, dead, but something this basic certainly doesn't deserve to be showered in upvotes
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Viliam1234 6d ago

> Cursive writing. Is there anything useful about cursive writing? Other than it being positively correlated with many good things because education is the common topic?

homarp 6d ago
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-athletes-way/202010/why-cursive-handwriting-is-good-your-brain https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-athletes-way/202... note that at least "Handwriting but not typewriting leads to widespread brain connectivity: a high-density EEG study with implications for the classroom" is critized - https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychology/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2024.1517235/full https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychology/articles/10....
- 201984 6d ago
  Is there any evidence that handwriting in cursive is better than handwriting normally? The Van der Meer study only compared cursive to typing or drawing, not handwriting. It's rather suspicious to leave normal handwriting out of the study, and makes me suspect bad faith.
  - hdgvhicv 5d ago
    Anecdotally my kids wrote a fair bit before they were forced to do “joined up writing”. Since then they have stopped almost entirely and what little they do write is far less legible than before. If there is one thing I would ban from education it’s this 17th century torture device.
    - basisword 5d ago
      How does this work? In school if they’re forced to write in cursive surely they still have to write the same amount? And if it’s writing in their spare time that has reduced they can write non-cursive so that shouldn’t be a blocker.
      - hdgvhicv 5d ago
        Once they hit year 6 or 7 (about 10-12) all bets are off My eldest son was so damaged by the cult of obsolete writing that he has to do everything on computer now, including exams. His writing before was neat and fast.
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  - ninalanyon 5d ago
    > evidence that handwriting in cursive is better than handwriting normally? Perhaps I'm too old for this conversation but surely cursive is writing normally?
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