Most recent public comments by William Brust https://nowcomment.com/users/14483 https://nowcomment.com/documents/35110?scroll_to=345237 https://nowcomment.com/documents/35110?scroll_to=345237 It's going to be funny in 10 or 15 years, when all these historical scholars have to take rudimentary cursive classes to decipher 160-year-old letters from the Civil War! Mon, 06 Jul 2015 11:37:42 -0400 https://nowcomment.com/documents/35114?scroll_to=344407 https://nowcomment.com/documents/35114?scroll_to=344407 First, let's clarify one thing. The abbreviations used in texting (and before that, in chat rooms and message boards) were not invented by teenagers. People have been abbreviating their text for centuries in private correspondence, as well as in telegraph messages. Auto-correct is a more pernicious foe than email or texting. Students can get used to having errors corrected for them and wind up not correcting their own work. At the start of the year, teachers should advise their students to disable auto-correct on their phones. The first week will be painful, but they'll soon get used to proper spelling, capitalization, and punctuation. Sun, 05 Jul 2015 12:40:10 -0400 https://nowcomment.com/documents/35110?scroll_to=344406 https://nowcomment.com/documents/35110?scroll_to=344406 We probably need more research before we know for sure what effect learning or not learning cursive has on a child's development. How long have students been learning cursive? Have we compared populations who never learned cursive to populations who learned it earlier or later in life? What about cultures that don't have a calligraphic style? Are their brains somehow impaired? Mon, 06 Jul 2015 11:37:42 -0400 https://nowcomment.com/documents/35109?scroll_to=344405 https://nowcomment.com/documents/35109?scroll_to=344405 Mon, 29 Jun 2015 15:37:12 -0400