Recently I have seen a seminar on the web: abha dawesar-life in the digital now. It was about how technology affect us in a blackout and our ability to think fast and store memories.
The seminar began with an example of the hurricane Sandy and New York city and a big blackout there. People did step out even in rain just to charge their mobile phone under an umbrella. I think they did it just to continue their daily life, not for an emergency situation, but was it really necessary to do so.
The seminar also talks about how our technology do most of our thinking (as calculating math) and the web offer to store our memories in blogs and tweeds, but gives less work for our brain to get good experience along the flow of time. To be the best at spelling words, we need to give ourselves time to try and accept failures along the way as well as get it right sometimes. If you get it wrong every time then you must get help to be able give yourself good experience that might help you to remember the right letters for that word. It applies for handwriting as well as digital writing.
In the past I have read an article on The Japans Times cursive handwriting disappearing from schools. The less practice children gets on handwriting in schools, their possibility to be able to write without any technical objects grows weak along the time they don't use their hands to write out words. The brain won't remember the pattern of moving your hand to write out the letters or to write on a straight line.
When I was in high school I was told to write by hand to be able to remember contexts and words easier because there isn't a computer with a spelling program that allow you to write the right letters of the words, realize you own mistakes by looking at your text.
Do everything by yourself to learn by trying (if you feel bad about it, look it up), hand over to someone else (if something is wrong, look it up together so both of you get it right by learning from each other). Make the story of your life to way you want along the time that pass by and good or bad memories of your past and goals in the further.
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SvaraRaderaYou have written very interesting things here. I think you are right when you talk about the things we don't need to do any more since the technology manage them instead. It is a nice comparasion you do to the Japanese children, do you think this will cause a problem in the future or will we accept the fact that hand writing is history? I think you are right about that it is good to write by hand to learn to spell right. You won't learn things you never practice. I can think of my own spelling, it was a much bigger deal to spell words right when I was younger, now I can look it up in a few seconds independent of where I am.
Thank you for interesting reading!
/Sofie
Thanks Sofie for your comment!
RaderaOn your question, I think it may cause a problem in the future between those who write on computers and those who write by hand. When you write by hand, you may write the same character in different shape and form as an "a" may be similar to an "u", if you are able to scan it to a computer it may read an "u" instead of an "a". In the Japanese language, the are some character to similar to each other as " ソ (so)" and " ン (N)". The difference is the stroke order on how you move your hand and if you learn it wrong, you will read the sentence and translation wrong as well. I think you read in The Japan Times article that handwriting was to be tout in art class instead of language class, if you think is wrong then you're right, just think about your first language characters being tout in art class instead of where you learn the language.
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Lilium Chizuru Kurozaki
Very interesting thoughts Sebastian! I highly agree with your opinions about learning by patterns and I think that kids have to learn to write and read normally before they do it with technology :) I think it gives an extra point that you refer to one more article as well. Good job
SvaraRadera