I’m with you all the way on schools being fucked up.
Speaking as someone who was taught and evaluated on their ability to write in cursive, type, and eventually, use dictation software and to do math by hand, using standard and scientific then graphing calculators and eventually computer software for all sorts of calculations: these techniques build upon each other and without a foundation of understanding why and how to construct a decent sentence or evaluate an expression I wouldn’t have been able to make effective use of each successive tool and process.
Which is not to say that the focus of school should be to force memorization of multiplication tables or teach brevity with a writers cramp as a gauntlet for future earnings.
If the schools wanted to effectively teach such a progression they’d just evaluate in person and stop assigning homework. Then it’d be easy to make sure no one’s cheating (or as hard as it was when you needed to physically sneak looks at surf written on your hand).
I’m with you all the way on schools being fucked up.
Speaking as someone who was taught and evaluated on their ability to write in cursive, type, and eventually, use dictation software and to do math by hand, using standard and scientific then graphing calculators and eventually computer software for all sorts of calculations: these techniques build upon each other and without a foundation of understanding why and how to construct a decent sentence or evaluate an expression I wouldn’t have been able to make effective use of each successive tool and process.
Which is not to say that the focus of school should be to force memorization of multiplication tables or teach brevity with a writers cramp as a gauntlet for future earnings.
If the schools wanted to effectively teach such a progression they’d just evaluate in person and stop assigning homework. Then it’d be easy to make sure no one’s cheating (or as hard as it was when you needed to physically sneak looks at surf written on your hand).