In one sense, that's awesome. A person can go back and analyze the hows and whys, but it also could easily lead to students never really bothering to learn and understand those hows and whys. That would not be good.
What do you think? Is this totally fantastic, merely useful, or will it make us all too dependent on computers (and lost when those computers malfunction)?
I'm conflicted. On the one hand, I love, love, love technology and think it's awesome that someone was even able to come up with this app. On the other, well, I'd hate to have fewer people motivated to learn new things.
Have a fantastic day!
Myrna
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I'm conflicted in the same way you are, Myrna.
Reminds me of when I asked my son's Gr 6 teacher why my son hadn't been pushed to use his handwriting skills and still printed by then. The teacher looked down at me (and I'm almost a foot taller than him, so I bet you understand what I mean) and said, "Handwriting is not important. This generation will use computers instead." I was some ... annoyed. I asked if my son was going to leave me a note on the counter printed on the computer (because that was the only example I could think up at the time). He just didn't care. He didn't commiserate with me. In fact, that teacher had the worst handwriting I had ever seen (and I have seen plenty of notes written by doctors). Priorities have changed....
The ONLY handwriting my son does (at now 29 years of age) is when he signs his name. That's it. Everything else is printed. I know it's not the end of the world, but I was and am disappointed in "the system".
Laney4, I totally understand your concern, and I agree. I taught 3rd grade, the year handwriting is taught. It's a real loss that such a useful skill is disappearing.
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