Handwriting is not dead. It is still important to be able to write, by hand, in cursive, even though some schools are discounting this. The medium of pencil and/or pen to paper is still extensively used to clearly communicate ideas and information. Rather than just dashing off something by texting a person, it takes thought to write them. I have experience with students in 6th,7th, and 8th grades who do not like to read cursive, but they are fully capable of doing so. Their skills with pencil and paper are not necessarily good, but if you do not use and practice a skill it will, of course, not be very good. Since requiring work to be legible, the students make the effort and do get better although for some there are some lessons learned that if their work is unreadable, they get no credit.
Cheers

It will be interesting if the kids of today don't develop that curvature of the middle finger from gripping pencil and pen. Anthropologist viewing our Skeletons in years to come might have a puzzle to solve.

Handwriting will never die though

Quickest way to make notes, lists and capturing thoughts.

Letters will always be special handwritten


I worry most about loss of vocabulary with the BTW's and GR8's

When OK (already abbreviated) is shortened to k I think we have a problem waiting in our futures

Orwell was right but the way he expected it to turn out has happened under the guise of "that's useful" and we have willingly accepted our every movement tracked and our language diminished.

Google now lets me know who I have just called from their telephone number (and I never told the phone) and tells me I'm 21 mins from home and can be expected to be delayed by 2 mins - that's brilliant but insidious at the same time.

Dave

I guess we can all agree that technology is a double edged sword, there are both benefits like alged said and some downsides to it like David Autums mentioned.

I fear you might be right

The ability to know everything but understand nothing