Is handwriting something we should even bother with?
I muse on that in today's video!
#penstr #letters #fountainpens #artstr
Discussion
This is awesome.
I've been specifically trying to use cursive in my journals just to keep it fresh and handy. I also believe it keeps your mind sharp. Helps process thought
Absolutely it does!
I've noticed I've gotten faster and a little better. Only issue now is my time to do it is less than before so I have to intentionally carve that out of my days.
I'm in favor of learning how to print and write in cursive. Each is useful in not only the obvious, primary ways.
For example, the letter L can be written 4 ways: capital print, lowercase print, capital cursive, and lowercase cursive.
When teaching children about how to properly speak fractions and decimals, I write out each of the 4 variations of the letter L and ask the student to pronounce each of them.
The point is to help them see that the link between written variations of some concept is the way we speak that concept, therefore, rather than saying "five over 10" or "five by ten", or "zero point five" or "point five", they'll realize they need to call 5/10 and 0.5 "five tenths".
Math itself is a language, so it shouldn't surprise us to find that studying language forms like cursive and printed writing yields us useful analogs.
This is amazing feedback!! I absolutely agree!
That's a trick too! I might need to adopt that one!
Writing, and handwriting is incredibly important. I’m from UK, at middle school age we were all required to purchase an italic fountain pen and practice weekly our italic calligraphy. Good handwriting also slows things down and make things purposeful.
I have switched to an #eink notepad but handwriting is still important.
That's really cool! I wish they did that sort of thing in Canada. I would happily buy my daughter a pen like that.