Now THAT's a headline.

[anniebuddy@mstdn.ca]

@markhurst

AI will only make it worse.

I joked that we have seen peak human intelligence but now I am convinced it is true.

[burnoutqueen@todon.nl]

@markhurst I think that if kids were encouraged to use computers intelligently, as programmers rather than Internet users, and if kids were encouraged to go deep on their own, this would be less of an issue

[joycebell@mas.to]

@oldoldcojote @markhurst My step granddaughter attends a Montessori school where they teach kids to write in cursive at an early age. I think it is brilliant!

[jmax@mastodon.social]

@markhurst - May I point out that their parents elected Trump. Twice.

[rexi@mastodon.social]

@markhurst

And moving right along from dodgy ed software to AI: next gen bandwidth shrinkage is next.

Eloi for Morlocks?

[tricotfeelya@woof.group]

@markhurst do kids even learn how to write anymore?

[skua@mastodon.social]

@Infoseepage @markhurst
I get that there are a lot of possible and probable contributors.

Maybe I'm misreading your posts but it seems that you're confident that "laptops and tablets" and "the screen" more generally are not significant contributors.

[greensofshade@mastodon.social]

@markhurst why do they always have to do one or the other, that's not how humans work

[geos@toot.community]

@markhurst
Bummer.

[skua@mastodon.social]

@luc0x61 @markhurst

Let's put your post up on the networked smart screens and student's tablets, and then look at whether it fits with the synergies between genAI in education, so called "individual learning plans", flooding teachers with adminstrative paperwork and removing music, fine art and crafts from the curriculum?
/(Is this marking the end of a sarcastic post? So hard to be sure these days)

[grb090423@mastodon.social]

@joycebell @oldoldcojote @markhurst

This is how we were taught to write (at a normal, state-funded school here in UK). I'll never understand why they stopped teaching it.

[eobeara@mastodon.ie]

@markhurst Our local school in Ireland tried that.
We protested. It stopped.

[drajt@fosstodon.org]

@grb090423 @joycebell @oldoldcojote @markhurst cursive handwriting is hard to read and slower than independent letters. It's also a pretty useless skill, compared to other things you could learn to do.

Not saying people shouldn't learn to write, but being able to type properly is more use than copybook cursive handwriting.

Most of what I was taught in school/uni has been directly useless in life but most has been transferable. Cursive handwriting is on the non-transferable list.

[tenpasttwo@mas.to]

@greensofshade @markhurst I was going to say just that. Same with assessment by coursework or exam, governments swing fully to one or other when a mixture gets the best of both.

[oldoldcojote@climatejustice.social]

@grb090423 @joycebell @markhurst

I taught my kids both cursive and printing at an early age. They prefer cursive.

[oldoldcojote@climatejustice.social]

@drajt @grb090423 @joycebell @markhurst

I have no problem reading it. Have helped read historic letters for people who didn't learn it. Its all about what you care to practice.

[ciarani@mastodon.green]

@markhurst That was quite a read. Thanks for sharing.

"A less capable population […] endangers how humans are able to overcome existential challenges in the decades to come. We’re facing challenges more complex and far-reaching than any in human history—from overpopulation to evolving diseases to moral drift. Now, more than ever, we need a generation able to grapple with nuance, hold multiple truths in tension, and creatively tackle problems that are stumping the greatest adult minds of today.”

[grb090423@mastodon.social]

@drajt @joycebell @oldoldcojote @markhurst

It helped me write quickly when needed in many jobs I had.

[drajt@fosstodon.org]

@grb090423 @joycebell @oldoldcojote @markhurst I was told it was faster when in school, but apparently there is little or no evidence to support this but there is evidence to suggest it is actually slower.

Obviously everyone is different, but I almost never took notes at school or university in full cursive handwriting as I found mixed cursive and printing faster to write, and with hindsight easier to read.

After decades of note taking at work I find I almost never use cursive.

[drajt@fosstodon.org]

@oldoldcojote @grb090423 @joycebell @markhurst obviously everyone is different and if you read it all the time you become more familiar with it.

I find it like reading scribbles, my mother's for example was very typical, it looks pretty from a distance but was in fact almost impossible to read. My step-father could only print in block caps, but it was far more legible and far easier to read.