tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-316884372249589308.post3867179919241841830..comments2024-02-28T02:21:20.040-08:00Comments on Learning from my mistakes: an English teacher's blog: Writing for a week with a .... pen Xris32http://www.blogger.com/profile/12204550583061791755noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-316884372249589308.post-61574193944694691602014-10-14T20:56:24.887-07:002014-10-14T20:56:24.887-07:00I definitely agree with you about having messy han...I definitely agree with you about having messy handwriting. I'm actually really self conscious about it when it comes to students reading it, especially when I have to write not the board. I've actually asked my professors to hold seminars about how to have better white board handwriting. I do have to ask, since you feel so strongly about your handwriting to create a blog post about it, do you think students should be more concerned about their own? AKA should schools focus on penmanship? Amandahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11660793342154935280noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-316884372249589308.post-56561489371896314302014-10-12T18:01:34.282-07:002014-10-12T18:01:34.282-07:00Using pens of any type unfortunately does not nece...Using pens of any type unfortunately does not necessarily mean a student will 'slow down and think' and when they do its not always a success. I have seen many students get caught up in the initial draft of a document's presentation to the detriment of the content and other students grind to a halt because they they have lost the run of their thoughts in the mundane effort of trying to appear neat. The world's documents are not handwritten anymore for good reason. So we can concentrate on the content. Only such past hand written documents like The Book of Kells and Blake's Songs of Innocence and Experience have benefit from both. I suppose if I was someone who had wonderfully neat (and legible) hand writing, I might not feel as strongly on this subject. However I cannot forget a postgrad exam I sat (as a mature student) where I had to write for 3 hours. My hand, arm, shoulder and neck were in pain, I had not got everything I knew on the subject down (which I could have in the time had I typed) and I left anxiously wondering if the examiner would be able to read a word I had written. I also left feeling a terrible pang of guilt for the times I had invigilated GCSE hand written exams and for what we put our children through in their everyday school lives, when the technology they are growing up familiar with, could save them from it all. Rosaleen Lynchhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07378031366296591455noreply@blogger.com