Mine is not an isolated devolution. Parents, educators and other supporters of calligraphy have complained of the end of the calligraphy for years. The E -mail has started to issue cards and letters decades ago. So smartphones affect the market and our dependence on paper notes, the calendars of the walls and post-it reminders have reduced themselves. In US public schools, attention has shifted from calligraphy to typing, since more and more children are exposed to iPad and computers in tandem with pencils. And in recent years, the IA has made sure that humans barely have to think, let alone note something. Now more than ever, it might seem that calligraphy is condemned.
It is not.
While writing and emotions are at the historic maximums, even the case of calligraphy is stronger than ever. Of course, part of the attachment is nostalgia. In the United States, there is also a strange sense that knowing the italics is a sort of civic duty For Americans. All those topics for hand writing neglect something: there are real advantages in learning to hold a pen in hand and use it.
US public schools still require children to be taught by hand, so it is not yet a lost art, but there is some tests that digital natives are less “ready” to write now compared to students in the past, says Karen Ray, professor of employment therapy at the University of Newcastle in Australia. In 2021, Ray co -author a study Examine if the children who grew up with devices possessed the same beautiful motor skills as children who did not do it. While those students met the performance levels envisaged on manual dexterity tests, their overall motor competence was less than the previous rules. Ultimately, the researchers hypothesized, the time spent to have devices rather than pencils could have an impact on the fact that children had all the motor skills they needed to learn calligraphy when they entered kindergarten.
But if children always have access to the devices, does it matter if they can write with their hands? Yes and no. If the last years of digital nomadic work and vibrant coding have taught us anything professionally, calligraphy may not be all that is necessary in many fields. The problem is that learning Hand writing may be necessary to learn everything else. “We still do not know what we are losing in terms of the acquisition of literacy de-enhancing the fluidity of calligraphy,” says Ray.
Among the half dozen of experts with whom I spoke for this piece, there were differences in opinion on the fact that the moral panics for writing were justified. For example, in many states legislators have approved legislation a Make sure children learn that in US public schools. Some experts support it, but many do not think that it is the case, in particular, it is so important. But almost everyone agrees that knowing how to write has cognitive benefits. It helps students to learn to read and it is likely that if they have to think about something long enough to write it, they will remember him more carefully than if it were digged.
“Calligraphy itself is really important,” says Robert Wiley, professor of psychology at the University of Northern Carolina in Greensboro whose research focuses on how the brain elaborates the written language. “Not in an absolute sense; people will not be illiterate. But some children will have more difficulty learning because they lack that practice? Yes.”
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