Cursive Handwriting and Other Education Myths (2016)

Re:Cursive Handwriting and Other Education Myths (2016) by kevin42 on Friday November 10, 2017 @09:59PM (#15674758)

Unless you are left handed, in which case none of these things are true. I quickly get hand fatigue when I (try to) write in cursive.

I really struggled with cursive in grade school because very little of the mechanics of right handed writing work for left-handed kids, and the teachers didn't have anything to offer other than criticism of the writing I could do. Most lefty's I have talked to had the same experience.

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Re:Cursive Handwriting and Other Education Myths (2016) by rlkf on Saturday November 11, 2017 @02:23AM (#15675349)

I know, and it's a shame, because it actually takes very little effort to do better teaching of left-handed:

http://handedness.org/action/leftwrite.html

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Re:Cursive Handwriting and Other Education Myths (2016) by dvdkhlng on Saturday November 11, 2017 @12:11AM (#15675089)

Then just write right-to-left. And to keep things readible mirror letters top-down (i.e. resulting in non-mirrored but 180 deg rotated page) :)

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