[LINK] welcome to the age of keyboards

[grove at zeta.org.au]

On Tue, 17 May 2011, Michael Skeggs mike at bystander.net wrote:

> On 14 May 2011 08:49, Jan Whitaker <jwhit at janwhitaker.com> wrote:
>
>> [I find the way kids in Australia are taught to write bizarre
>> (disconnected cursive of some type), but this is just story below is
>> just crazy.]
>>
>>
> My NSW school spent months and months teaching me cursive, which I never
> use.
> If they had spent that time teaching me to type I would be much better off.

I had to learn cursive in my first year of school with a nib pen.  That was a real 
success story right there.    Then 2 years later I had to forget all the 
imperial measurements I had had drummed into me and relearn the metric system.

Oh and never mind having to learn numeracy in pounds shillings and pence and 
then get whacked onto the Decimal system.

And then in high school, the first computers we learnt on were HP-97's or something,
then I had to relearn everything for the Apple II!

Being a baby boomer on the tail-end of the wave was annoying for me :/

I would still teach kids to write cursively though.  Some of them might 
become artists or calligraphers.


rachel

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Rachel Polanskis                 Kingswood, Greater Western Sydney, Australia
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