It’s generational, but those of us brought up with handwriting competitions at school and handwritten essays and the written examination are judgmental of a generation who apparently have terrible handwriting and can’t spell.
Do they need to? They can touch type – can you? Faced with a sheet of paper and a pen to write an essay they may struggle to be legible and make spelling mistakes – but how often do they do that, or will they need to that.
Isn’t it like complaining in the 8th century that scribes would be rubbish with a chisel putting their words in stone.
The goal is everything – clear communication. Doesn’t technology deliver this?
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