Handwriting on the WayOut??

[miserableoldgit]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-14121541

[pap]

The only things that I hand-write are birthday cards. A long neglected skill.

[Pancake]

Good to see literacy skills are alive and well on SaintsWeb though.

[Guest Dark Sotonic Mills]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-14121541

 

I read that in the Times on Monday. A real facepalm moment. They've f**ked up the spoken language now they're set to destroy writing.

[rpb]

Not sure where I stand on this - handwriting has always been a bit over-rated in my opinion but that's after thirty five years of exasperation at parents who can't see past the look of their child's work and totally ignore the quality of what has been written.

 

In the current KS2 SATs - handwriting is marked out of 3, spelling 7 and the actual writing (organisation, grammar, content) 90. About right I think.

[saint francis]

There must be the potential to, rather than type out responses on forums, for us to have a little pad and a stylus so that we could handwrite our posts and our writing could be seen rather than a typed font. Would we want that though?

[Saint Mikey]

There must be the potential to, rather than type out responses on forums, for us to have a little pad and a stylus so that we could handwrite our posts and our writing could be seen rather than a typed font. Would we want that though?

 

No. Because typing is quicker and we are all becoming lazy feckers. Mark my words, in years to come, those talking apes will find no evidence of human writing and think we are all savages - I saw a documentary about it...

Edited 14 July, 2011 by Saint Mikey

[Dimond Geezer]

Not sure where I stand on this - handwriting has always been a bit over-rated in my opinion but that's after thirty five years of exasperation at parents who can't see past the look of their child's work and totally ignore the quality of what has been written.

 

In the current KS2 SATs - handwriting is marked out of 3, spelling 7 and the actual writing (organisation, grammar, content) 90. About right I think.

 

Are you expressing your views as a teacher. I ask because I'd be interested in your opinion of this:

 

My son has always had awful handwriting, apparently this is because he is very intelligent, and writes quickly. I've often spoken to his teachers about it (going as far back as year 3, he will be starting year 10 in September), but without exception, all have said that it's not a problem. I have great difficulty reading what he's written & I really need to concentrate, although sometimes it's just impossible. My concern is that when it comes to exam time, the examiner won't be able to read what's in front of him (or her) and my son won't get the grades that he deserves. He is expected to get an A-A* in all of his subjects, and not only will it be a shame if he doesn't achieve this, but it could potentially prove a set-back to his university aspirations.

[saint francis]

No. Because typing is quicker and we are all becoming lazy feckers. Mark my words, in years to come, those talking apes will find no evidence of human writing and think we are all savages - I saw a documentary about it...

But then the apes will uncover 'the lounge' and be reassured by its humanity. Maybe.

[rpb]

Are you expressing your views as a teacher. I ask because I'd be interested in your opinion of this:

 

My son has always had awful handwriting, apparently this is because he is very intelligent, and writes quickly. I've often spoken to his teachers about it (going as far back as year 3, he will be starting year 10 in September), but without exception, all have said that it's not a problem. I have great difficulty reading what he's written & I really need to concentrate, although sometimes it's just impossible. My concern is that when it comes to exam time, the examiner won't be able to read what's in front of him (or her) and my son won't get the grades that he deserves. He is expected to get an A-A* in all of his subjects, and not only will it be a shame if he doesn't achieve this, but it could potentially prove a set-back to his university aspirations.

 

I do like well formed handwriting but have never thought it was essential - I would prefer to have a well organised, interesting piece of work poorly written than a load of rubbish beautifully presented. Examiners are quite good at reading poor writing but some degree of legibility is helpful... If all of the teachers say that his handwriting is not a problem then I wouldn't worry, they can obviously read it.

[pap]

I can type faster than I can write, and it doesn't look crap.

 

Before we get too misty-eyed on the demise of hand-writing, just remember all the times you've had to decipher someone's ink-strewn cursive. It's crap, and thinking back, all the time we spent doing handwriting practice in school was a total and utter waste of time.

[TopGun]

I am deffo a handwriting incompetent these days as I so rarely pick up a pen. It feels like a strange tool.

[tony13579]

I cant even write my email address in lower case let alone joined up.

[benjii]

I don't do either.

 

I dictate and get someone else to do the boring work.

 

So stick that up your arses, you plebs.

 

 

(Apart from this. I typed this post.)

[Dimond Geezer]

Examiners are quite good at reading poor writing but some degree of legibility is helpful... If all of the teachers say that his handwriting is not a problem then I wouldn't worry, they can obviously read it.

 

I am worried that the examiners wouldn't be as tolerent as the teachers, but I guess the bit in bold is probably more pertinent.

[tony13579]

I find university bods are very intolerant of my dyslexia. They are so wrapped up in my typos they can't read the message. I know I can be a genius at times and solve the problem faster than the boffs. However they discard the solution because I typed "thier" instead of "their". I sometimes wonder whether their anal retentive obsession with spelling and punctuation is a worse affliction than my dyslexia.

[Thorpe-le-Saint]

The bigger concern is the intrusion of "LOL" etc into written work

[mack rill]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-14121541

 

Thank f*ck for that, no good at it anyway, Got one of those speeky to your pc thingys once, its voice reorganization thing just went(er! what lingo is that)