The other day I was having a discussion with some of my classmates in my TE 348 class. We were talking about how most schools are taking cursive out of their curriculum. This is a crazy concept for me because from about 3rd grade to 7th grade I was required to write in cursive. However now a days educators feel that the future students will not need to know how to write and read cursive. Computers have taken over the world of text, students are now expected to type up a lot of their homework and other various assignments. We were debating on if students should still learn cursive. We feel as though yes technology is a huge part of our society, however you need signatures, which are usually in cursive. But if you never learn how to read or write in cursive, everyones signature will be printed. This will be much easier for others to copy and forge. This could lead to a future problem in our society.
What do you think? Do you think technology is prominent enough to end the teaching of cursive? If so where do we stop? I mean one day will we not teach out students how to even write print? Will our future students just learn how to type everything? Instead of notebooks to take notes will all students bring in a laptop? Will they soon take tests on the laptops as well? I know some of this is far out there, but what do you think? Cursive was a big part of our education while I was in school and to just stop teaching it seems a little dramatic to me. How do you feel?
