Schoolchildren in Novosibirsk forgot how to hand-write

Teachers from Novosibirsk are raising the alarm: schoolchildren forgot how to hand-write. Good handwriting becomes rarer year by year. Psychologists suggest that having lost the ability to write down beautifully the received information, schoolchildren lose the ability to remember it as well. Moreover, a lack of writing skills can dangerously affect their mental health.

Teachers of Novosibirsk schools are anxious about the strained problem, which was an issue only at schools for mental deficients before. Nowadays schoolchildren do not know how to write with a pen or a pencil. Only a few of them are capable to write by hand. Even though they are taught by samples of writing at primary schools. Experts believe there is far too little time given to learn calligraphy. A poor developed and unclaimed in future skill gets lost very fast. As a result, schoolchildren write extremely poorly, so their handwriting could provide competition to doctors, who top the calligraphy anti-rating worldwide. Only few people can brag about beautiful handwriting.

The above mentioned problem is considered to be global and is discussed at educational conferences on a regular basis. All schoolchildren without an exception write much worse than their parents. Fine handwriting becomes an uncommon thing even in humanitarian lycees and gymnasiums.

Schoolchildren have the same explanation of their refusing to spend time on pen and paper things. They say «I will never need it.» Schoolchildren think it is enough to know how to write their signature when anything else can be typed on a computer’s keyboard.

However, schoolmasters flatly disagreed that we should leave the attempt to develop in children the skill of writing by hand at the era of high technologies. They suggest that having lost the ability to write, schoolchildren lose not only their handwriting but the ability to learn new material as well. According to psychologists, this happens because their motor memory, which is the strongest and the most lasting one, is not involved. Moreover, the rejection of writing by hand can cause an extra menace to children’s mental health.

Schoolchildren in Novosibirsk forgot how to hand-write

Source: www.smartnews.ru