למידה, אינטרנט ... ומה שביניהם

I can't usually fault them ..., since my crappy inkjet in my home office is always out of ink too. However, the number of students who still don't think to email papers to an instructor is remarkably large. More importantly, the number of teachers unwilling to accept papers electronically is remarkably small. All this means is that schools and parents bear the cost of printing when electronic means exist to easily exchange and view files.

As a result, formal handwriting is on the way to becoming more of an "art form" than practical skill, according to Katherine Boles , a lecturer at Harvard University's Graduate School of Education .

"Computers are just taking over," said Boles, who taught third and fourth grade at the Edward Devotion School in Brookline for more than a quarter-century.

It's hard to imagine that someone, somewhere is spending more time writing on a computer than by hand. Thankfully, there is a voice of reason from a reliable source:

"Those who earn their living by teaching handwriting" (I'm not making this up) "say it has not been supplanted by e-mail and text messaging."

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