Comments on: Are Kids Losing the Art of Handwriting? /blog/937/are-kids-losing-the-art-of-handwriting/ The World's Safest Trampoline. Sat, 14 Jan 2012 22:56:16 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Joe Bloggs /blog/937/are-kids-losing-the-art-of-handwriting/comment-page-1/#comment-422 Joe Bloggs Mon, 01 Feb 2010 21:25:11 +0000 /blog/?p=937#comment-422 I seriously doubt that writing is becoming a lost art. It is perhaps messier than in the past, due to lack of practice, but it is still essential. You'd probably find that 7 out of 10 parents do not take enough interest in their child's education and therefore have no idea what the children are doing in school. My concern is not that people are losing the art of writing, but that they have no concept of spelling and grammar, as clearly indicated by this post. There is a definite difference between then and than, as in more than, and then I did something else. It is also important that children are taught the difference between there, their and they're. If you're not sure look it up and correct your children. Along with correct capitalisation, children should be encouraged to reread their work aloud and look for simple mistakes, rather than wait for their teacher to correct it. Simple errors like, "how young are kids when they areown a mobile phone" (sic) are easy to pick up and correct before publishing. My problem with technology is that people have become lazy when expressing themselves and wait for the computer to give them a squiggly red line, or a green one (though they rarely know how to correct this). The trouble is, most computers aren't smart enough to pick up the subtle differences in the language that only a good education can provide. Get off facebook and go see what your kids are doing. Joe I seriously doubt that writing is becoming a lost art. It is perhaps messier than in the past, due to lack of practice, but it is still essential. You’d probably find that 7 out of 10 parents do not take enough interest in their child’s education and therefore have no idea what the children are doing in school. My concern is not that people are losing the art of writing, but that they have no concept of spelling and grammar, as clearly indicated by this post.

There is a definite difference between then and than, as in more than, and then I did something else. It is also important that children are taught the difference between there, their and they’re. If you’re not sure look it up and correct your children.

Along with correct capitalisation, children should be encouraged to reread their work aloud and look for simple mistakes, rather than wait for their teacher to correct it. Simple errors like, “how young are kids when they areown a mobile phone” (sic) are easy to pick up and correct before publishing.

My problem with technology is that people have become lazy when expressing themselves and wait for the computer to give them a squiggly red line, or a green one (though they rarely know how to correct this). The trouble is, most computers aren’t smart enough to pick up the subtle differences in the language that only a good education can provide.

Get off facebook and go see what your kids are doing.

Joe

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