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> Cursive writing. Is there anything useful about cursive writing? Other than it being positively correlated with many good things because education is the com
by 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 agohttps://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 5d agoIs 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 agoAnecdotally 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 agoHow 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 agoOnce 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?
- nancyminusone 5d agoYes. Roughly zero people my age would consider cursive to be normal. The number I've seen is that you're in the 20% that does.